NEW DELHI: BJP had a go at opposition parties Tuesday as Aam Aadmi Party attacked Congress over its dharna outside PM’s residence on the NEET-UG paper leak issue, saying it is quite obvious that the “sponsored” protests were never about students but about the opposition’s search for political relevance.“It is quite obvious that the sponsored protests were never about students. No affected student was given a platform. Opposition politicians frequented Jantar Mantar in search of political relevance, and now, we see Congress and AAP squabbling over credit,” BJP said as the Arvind Kejriwal-led party accused Congress of trying to weaken Cockroach Janta Party’s protest.Keeping up its attack over the protests, BJP alleged that all political assets of those resenting India’s rise have been activated. “But India’s democracy is neither so fragile nor are the people of this country so naive that they cannot see their mandate being held to ransom by the sponsored outrage of a few,” BJP’s Amit Malviya said, adding the timing is no coincidence.As India accelerates towards becoming a developed nation, every transformational initiative is met with a familiar cycle of disruption, disinformation and manufactured outrage, he claimed.Malviya said at a time when the country is making rapid strides in different sectors, those who failed to stop India’s rise electorally now seek to slow it through perpetual agitation, manufactured crises and a relentless campaign to erode public confidence.
