Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on Tuesday up in arms against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the fall of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in Karnataka.
Priyanka took to Twitter and warned the saffron party will one day discover that "everything cannot be bought, everyone cannot be bullied and every lie is eventually exposed."
Accusing the BJP of systematically "dismantling institutions", she said: "Until then I suppose, the citizens of our country will have to endure their unbridled corruption, the systematic dismantling of institutions that protect the people’s interests and the weakening of a democracy that took decades of toil and sacrifice to build."
Besides Priyanka, her brother Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also targetted the BJP saying the democracy, honesty and people had lost in Karnataka after the fall of the coalition government.
"From its first day, the Cong-JDS alliance in Karnataka was a target for vested interests, both within & outside, who saw the alliance as a threat & an obstacle in their path to power. Their greed won today," Gandhi tweeted.
"Democracy, honesty and the people of Karnataka lost," he said.
Capping a three-week-long high-voltage intense power struggle triggered by a raft of resignations by rebel lawmakers that pushed the government to the brink of collapse, the motion in the Karnataka Assembly was defeated with 99 members voting for the motion and 105 against it.
Of the 225-member Assembly, 20 legislators were absent for the floor test, reducing the House strength to 205 with 103 as the halfway mark for a simple majority.
(With inputs from agencies)
