<p class="title">BJP, which had earlier given a controversial slogan of “Congress Mukta Bharat” on Thursday declared that the grand old party of Indian politics is now a ‘fringe’.</p>.<p class="title">Training guns on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over her remarks that Congress will cut into the votes of the BJP, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said this is a “confessional statement of becoming a fringe organization” what the Congress leader said about being “votekatua party”.</p>.<p class="title">Ridiculing the Congress which was reduced to a mere 44 Lok Sabha seats in 2014 30 years after it had won 404 seats post Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Jaitley said that not only it has become a fringe party because of its strength going down but its stance on national security issues is not of a mainstream party.</p>.<p class="title">Recalling that Congress used to be a party of 300-400 seats during the times of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, he said it became a party of 125-150 seats during Rajiv Gandhi's era and is now a party of 40-70 seats, he said. He termed the 2009 elections in which the Congress had won 206 seats as an exception.</p>.<p class="title">“Congress is turning out to be a fringe party. The grand old party of India is now a fringe organisation,” he said.</p>.<p class="title">Apart from some BJP leaders, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said in Parliament that he was pursuing Mahatma Gandhi's dream of a 'Congress-mukt Bharat'. After Congress 3:0 victory in Hindi belt states Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the BJP has not used the “Congress Mukt Bharat” phrase.</p>.<p class="title">Jaitley also dismissed the temple tripping by Congress leaders calling them "chunavi Hindus" (Hindus during elections) .</p>.<p class="title">He was replying to a question about Congress leader Digvijay Singh inviting a group of 'sadhus' to Bhopal, from where he is contesting against BJP’s Sadhvi Pragya Thakur.</p>
<p class="title">BJP, which had earlier given a controversial slogan of “Congress Mukta Bharat” on Thursday declared that the grand old party of Indian politics is now a ‘fringe’.</p>.<p class="title">Training guns on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over her remarks that Congress will cut into the votes of the BJP, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said this is a “confessional statement of becoming a fringe organization” what the Congress leader said about being “votekatua party”.</p>.<p class="title">Ridiculing the Congress which was reduced to a mere 44 Lok Sabha seats in 2014 30 years after it had won 404 seats post Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Jaitley said that not only it has become a fringe party because of its strength going down but its stance on national security issues is not of a mainstream party.</p>.<p class="title">Recalling that Congress used to be a party of 300-400 seats during the times of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, he said it became a party of 125-150 seats during Rajiv Gandhi's era and is now a party of 40-70 seats, he said. He termed the 2009 elections in which the Congress had won 206 seats as an exception.</p>.<p class="title">“Congress is turning out to be a fringe party. The grand old party of India is now a fringe organisation,” he said.</p>.<p class="title">Apart from some BJP leaders, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said in Parliament that he was pursuing Mahatma Gandhi's dream of a 'Congress-mukt Bharat'. After Congress 3:0 victory in Hindi belt states Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the BJP has not used the “Congress Mukt Bharat” phrase.</p>.<p class="title">Jaitley also dismissed the temple tripping by Congress leaders calling them "chunavi Hindus" (Hindus during elections) .</p>.<p class="title">He was replying to a question about Congress leader Digvijay Singh inviting a group of 'sadhus' to Bhopal, from where he is contesting against BJP’s Sadhvi Pragya Thakur.</p>
