English : salient points of press conference of senior BJP leader and Union Minister, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

The Bharatiya Janata Party respects the right to protest in a democratic system, but it is condemnable to create an atmosphere of fear and resort to violence.

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A two-year-old girl died due to the Bharat Bandh by Rahul Gandhi's party workers after they stopped the ambulance in Jehanabad, Bihar. This is not only a death of girl child but a daughter of India. The Bharatiya Janata Party strongly condemns it.

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BJP wants to ask Rahul Gandhi that who is responsible for the death of this innocent girl child?

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Who is responsible for the loss of property due to the violence and incendiarism caused to the common people of India? The Congress Party must answer it.

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The Bharat Bandh of the Congress Party and the opposition has completely failed.  The people of the country are neither standing with the shutdown call nor with the negative politics of the Congress Party. The Congress Party has deamned the democracy of the country.

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The Congress party was looking for an opportunity to create an atmosphere of terror and panic across the country and the Congress has resorted to political violence to bring this fear to the streets with this excuse. The politics of spreading terror and violence of Congress workers. should be stopped.

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I challenge former Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh to debate on the basis of facts on any parameter. It should be left on Congress President Rahul Gandhi to blame without any fact and then to run away from the debate.

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How long will the Congress party continue to play with the democracy of the country through this pity politics of violence? Who will be responsible for the violence and damage caused during the shutdown and damage to the country? The Congress Party must answer it.

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We understand the problems of people of the country and we are working to solve them. The increase in price in petroleum products is temporary; the solution will come out soon.

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Based on facts & figure, there should be meaningful and balanced debate in the country so that the country get coordinated information.

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Our government is not a government of one family but is a government of 125 crore Indians. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji, the Bharatiya Janata Party government of the Center has succeeded in bringing the country's 5 crore people above the extreme poverty line in the last four and a half years.

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