Poll strategist Prashant Kishor's remark on the Congress party's 'Divine Right to Rule' evoked, quite expectedly, a sharp response from the party.
Party spokesperson Pawan Khera said, "The individual being discussed here is pursuing his Divine Duty to struggle and save Indian democracy from the RSS.
"A professional without ideological commitment is free to advice parties/individuals on how to contest elections but he cannot set the agenda of our politics," he said.
"This bogey of Congress assuming a 'Divine Right To Rule' needs to be busted. Rahul Gandhi is carrying forward our rich legacy of a 'Divine Duty To Struggle'," the Congress leader said.
Khera also hit out at Mamata Banerjee saying that a regional leader who is not a part of the UPA claiming UPA does not exist is a bizarre claim.
"Just because I'm not a citizen of the USA doesn't mean USA doesn't exist," he said.
Congress leader Kapil Sibal, a prominent member of the 'group of 23' that wrote to Sonia Gandhi seeking large scale organisational overhaul in the party also called for opposition unity and said the UPA without the Congress will be a body without a soul.
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