Nehru, Patel never thought Cong would become family concern:

BJP New Delhi, Aug 19 (PTI) In a counter-attack after Congressaccused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of insulting freedomfighters, BJP today said the Congress of today does notrepresent the Congress of freedom movement, claiming thatJawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel would have never thought itwould become a "family concern". Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad also took a dig atCongress vice president Rahul Gandhi after he tweeted aSanskrit shloka to target Modi, saying he will have to firstfind out who tweeted on Gandhi’s behalf and also his knowledgeof history before he responds to comments. Citing participation of RSS founder K B Hedgewar in thestruggle against the British rule, he also highlighted the"role" of RSS and BJP in liberation struggle for Goa andHyderabad besides in movement against the Emergency tounderscore the "sacrifices" made by them. After senior Congress leader Anand Sharma quoted SardarPatel to target RSS, Prasad accused the party of quoting him"selectively" and insulting him "institutionally" as he notedthat Patel was given Bharat Ratna in 1991 by the then ChandraShekhar government, almost four decades after he died. "Does the Congress party of today represent even one percent of the essence of the Congress party of the freedommovement? Nehru and Patel would have never thought that itwould become a family concern," he told a press conference. Prasad insisted that Modi in his speech at a BJP even didnot undermine the role of the Congress in the freedom movementand recalled that he had praised Nehru in his August 15speech. RSS was banned twice and Jana Sangh, the forerunner ofBJP, in Emergency, he said, adding that no reason was found toban RSS leading to repeal of the ban. Earlier, BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma said,"British used to repress Indians. Congress has been repressingrivals. It imposed the Emergency and threw all rivals behindbars. Repressing rivals has been part of its policy," He also referred to the death of Jana Sangh founder ShyamaPrasad Mukherjee in a Jammu jail during his protests againstthe stand of Congress on Kashmir issue. "We are giving due respect to all freedom fighters. Lakhsof people made sacrifices. India’s struggle for freedomstarted in 1857. The past governments glorified a few people.Bhagat Singh was mentioned as a terrorist and ChandrashekharAzad’s sacrifice was hardly acknowledged. We are making amendsand glorifying everybody," he said. PTI KRZMN