BHOPAL: Congress has been left cringing by its foot-in-themouth leaders in poll-bound MP. While AICC general secretary in-charge Deepak Babaria on Monday praised RSS for its “organisational discipline”, Congress’ deputy Leader of Opposition, Bala Bachchan , followed it up with an embarrassing slip of tongue on Tuesday when he called for a “Congress-mukt state and country”.

Top Congress leaders avoided commenting on the two statements, beyond pointing out that Bachchan’s remark was an obvious slip. On Monday, two factions of Congress workers came to blows at a meeting headed by Babaria — who party chief Rahul Gandhi had hand-picked as in-charge of MP.

An irate Babaria told the gathering of Congress workers, “Learn discipline from RSS.” Then he dropped another bombshell. “Jawaharlal Nehru had utilised RSS for their discipline during the 1962 war with China.”

Addressing a rally in Anjar, Bachchan said, “Mein BJP ko yeh batana chahta hoon ki MP ko aur desh ko Congress-mukt banana hai (I want to tell BJP that MP and the country will have to be made Congressfree).” The crowds cheered.

