Gandhi family should distance itself from age-old Congress: Siddharth Nath Singh

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Siddharth Nath Singh on Sunday said that the Congress party has to survive Gandhi family should distance itself from the age old Congress.

"If Congress is to survive in this nation, than the Gandhi family should distance itself from the age old Congress party. The people who used to speak silently about Rahul Gandhi's leadership are now expressing it openly," said Singh.

"Knives are out and they all are pointing towards Rahul. Everyone is pointing fingers at him now," he said.

Yesterday, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh had reportedly indicted Gandhi's governing abilities, and said that the Gandhi scion does not have a temperament suited to the ruling benches.

Digvijaya also said that he had suggested Rahul to take up the role of the main opposition leader in the Lok Sabha, a responsibility given to Congress' Karnataka stalwart Mallikarjun Kharge.

He had later retracted from his earlier statement on Rahul Gandhi, and lauded the latter's effort to fight against injustice and not hanker for power which differentiates him from the rest.