Prasad mocks at Cong for not keeping flock together

Facing flak from rivals for imposition of President's rule in Uttarakahand, Union Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today slammed the Congress for blaming the BJP-led NDA government on the issue when it could not hold its flock together.
"Why do you (Congress) blame us (for imposition of the President's rule in Uttarakhand when you can't keep your MLAs together?" he sarcastically observed.
"What can we do when the Congress workers get angry at the style of functioning of their President Sonia Gandhi, Vice-president Rahul Gandhi and the Chief Ministers of its governments in state?", Prasad asked while deflecting criticism of the NDA government at the Centre for imposition of the President's rule in Uttarakhand.

"If the Congress can't keep its own house together, we need take responsibility for the same," he told reporters.
Reminding the days preceding arrest of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charge for raising anti-national slogans in the JNU campus last month, the Union Minister said that the nature of slogans like 'Bharat ki barbadi tak'; 'jung jari rahegi'; 'Afzal hum sharminda hai', 'tere katil zinda hai' and 'Bharat tere tukre honge, Insha Allah Insha Allah' invited action from the Centre.
On Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar condemning Kanhaiya Kumar's arrest on sedition charge, Prasad asked as to what the former has to say about these 'anti-national' slogans.

On the controversy over chanting of 'Bharat Mata ki Jai', the Union Minister said that hundreds of youths gathered last night at 'Dak Bungalow' roundabout here after India's victory over Australia in the World T20 league match and raised slogans 'Bharat Mata ki jai'.
The BJP did not ask these youngsters to chant 'Bharat Mata ki Jai', he said and asked the Chief Minister to take a stand whether those raising nationalistic slogans spontaneously were right or wrong.