'Congress has no right to oppose divestment'

Bharatiya Janata Party president Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said the Congress had no right to oppose divestment as the process of economic liberalisation was set in motion by it.

Describing as baseless Congress president Sonia Gandhi's charge that the divestment policies of the National Democratic Alliance government was bound to increase unemployment, he said, ''While the Congress president is opposing divestment, her party's chief ministers in Karnataka, Punjab and Chhattisgarh are implementing these policies.''

About her remarks that a certain ideology has direct relation between the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, incidents in 1992 and violence in Gujarat, the BJP president said, "After independence, it was the Congress which had always ignored Gandhian ideologies. They think about Gandhiji only to remain in power but did not remember his ideologies'', he added.

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