New Delhi: The BJP described Sonia Gandhi's decision to resign as MP and as the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council as an attempt to 'save her face'.
"The politics of revenge of the Congress has recoiled on itself. She has become a victim of her own conspiracy," BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley told a press conference soon after Sonia Gandhi announced her resignation.
"This is a desperate attempt to save her face," he said.
"The Congress started the whole thing. It targetted other parties. The whole issue was handled in a pathetic manner. Congress didn't want to bring the issue in the Parliament. It wanted to bypass Parliament," he said.
Jaitley said the Congress has lost credibility over the ordinance issue. "The Congress is now trying to do the same thing it did in 1975," he alleged.
"For an ordinance, there are two requirements. The Parliament should not be in session and there should be a reason of extreme urgency. Hence, one person's requirement cannot be a constitutional urgency," Jaitley reasoned and stressed that there can never be an urgency where one person has to be saved.
"Sonia was caught red-handed trying to subvert the Constitution," Jaitley said, adding that the BJP leaders will meet on Friday to discuss the next strategy of the party.
Another BJP leader, Ravi Shankar Prasad, said this shows 'democracy is in power'. "Sonia resigned just because of that. We oppose any law, but we are open to discussion," he said.
Earlier, stepping up its offensive, BJP petitioned President A P J Abdul Kalam seeking disqualification of Sonia Gandhi on grounds of holding an office of profit as Chairperson of National Advisory Council.
A four-member party delegation submitted the petition to the President's office seeking its early forwarding to the Election Commission and hoped an 'impartial decision' would be taken.
BJP General Secretary Ananth Kumar told reporters that the party expected Kalam to keep BJP's petition also in mind in the event of the Government sending an Ordinance to him for consent to protect MPs holding offices of profit from disqualification, as was done in the case of Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan.
An NDA delegation, led by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had rushed to the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday soon after Parliament was adjourned sine die and urged him not to sign any such Ordinance, which it alleged was 'solely and exclusively' aimed at protecting Gandhi.
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