****Sonia Gandhi said in a rare direct appeal to voters, "Their vision, clouded with hatred and falsehood, their ideology, divisive and autocratic, will drive us to the ruination of our Bharatiyata, our Hindustaniyat." BJP president Rajnath Singh retaliated ,"Mrs Gandhi and the Congress should first learn and understand what Bharatiyata is," says BJP will ruin 'Bhartiyata',. BJP says that "let her learn it first ".
****Subramanian Swamy tweeted," Good luck to Varun. One Nehru whose blood is 100 percent Hindustaniyat. No wonder Booze and Buddhu jealous ". He also said that it was Priyanka Gandhi and not Varun Gandhi who has gone astray and had added that the former and her party were not able to digest the Varun's success.
****Swamy Commenting on Priyanka Gandhi was willingness to contest elections from Varanasi against BJP's PM nominee Narendra Modi, said that Gandhi would have been thrashed if she had done so as she drinks too much alcohol and has a bad name. Swamy said,"They saved her. She would have got a thrashing. She is very unpopular, she drinks too much alcohol and she has a bad name, her husband has a bad name,". He even called Priyanka an ungrateful daughter for going to see the prisoners in jail who assassinated her own father.
***Former West Bengal governor and civil servant, Gopalkrishna Gandhi slammed the CBI as it is often called DDT --the "Department of Dirty Tricks." He said,"The CBI has a very mixed image. Not all of it is flattering. It is seen as a government's hatchet, rather than honesty's ally. Gandhi was delivering the 15th D.P. Kohli Memorial Lecture organised by CBI with its Director Ranjit Sinha and the entire CBI top brass in attendance. He criticised why the CBI was kept out of the purview of the Right to Information Act and said there was justified criticism of the CBI regarding handling probes against senior bureaucrats.