"There was a time when parties used to unite to fight the Congress: the BJP has forgotten its own history," Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot said. "When there are huge floods, all animals like snakes, mongooses, dogs and cats climb onto a single tree for refuge. As questions were raised, the BJP president argued he had merely alluded to the fact of divergent parties joining hands. Some of the regional parties Shah has compared to dogs, cats, snakes and mongooses have been BJP allies in the past. They won only two Lok Sabha seats (in 1984) but we didn't say we wanted a BJP-mukt Bharat.

Source: The Telegraph April 08, 2018 21:11 UTC