The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday took strong exception to the "uncivilised, personal" comments of Congress against BJP president Nitin Gadkari, saying there was no place for such discourse in a democracy.
Reacting to Gadkari's allegations that the Prime Minister's Office as well as his cabinet were involved in alleged corruption in the Commonwealth Games projects, Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari had on Wednesday called the BJP president a "spoilt brat".
"Through his uncouth, personal comments against the BJP national president on Wednesday, Tewari has shown his own uncivilised behaviour," said BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said.
He maintained that in a democracy the Congress had every right to express its views, but it should not have been done in such a manner. The BJP also warned the Congress that it was capable of using such language too but that was not its way of functioning. "People have always condemned such comments but the Congress should remember that it also has a president. And it is not in our nature to make such comments. But don't think we cannot do such things. Political discourse has to be with certain decency. The Congress should practice restraint," Javadekar said.
The Rajya Sabha member maintained that Gadkari had raised issues of "public importance, national importance, corruption, and the shame brought to the nation by the culprits, and definitely the errors