Dumbo to national disaster: Who said what in Cong-BJP verbal war

The Congress and the BJP were at each other's throats all day, hurling comment after comment over the way the Uttarakhand crisis has been handled.It all began, strangely enough, on Twitter when a comment by Lok Sabha leader Sushma Swaraj criticising the Uttarakhand government was responded to by Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari who tweeted, " H’onble LOP’s have mindspace to critique govt proposals on CBI autonomy that are yet to be placed before SC but no time to visit Uttrakhand. Did anyone see LOP’s in both houses express sympathy/visit disaster hit Uttrakhand This from a party that criticizes visits of Cong leader."This led to an inevitable back and forth that got increasingly fiery. Examples below:

We did not go to Uttarakhand because Home Minister made a public statement that our visit will hamper the rescue effort. — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013

 

He went to the extent of saying that nobody including himself was allowed to land anywhere. — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013

 

The truth is that I woke you up about the scale of tragedy when I spoke to Home Minister on 18th June and tweeted about this. — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013

 

When we enforce accountability, you call it politics. We will not allow you this escape route to hide your failures. — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013

 

What has your state Government done ? Nothing. The living are starving. The dead are being robbed. And you are patting your back. — Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwarajbjp) July 1, 2013

 After this outburst by Swaraj, Tewari responded saying, "If LOP follows the advise of HM how come it does not apply to the BJP President & Poll panel chief ? Different strokes for different folks!"But the scrapping didn't end there. Leader after leader in both parties decided to get involved.[caption id="attachment_919249" align="alignleft" width="380"] Sushma Swaraj. AFP[/caption]Here are some of the comments:Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: “The Central Government was only into hampering the relief work. Congress party is itself a national disaster. Look at the credibility of this Government, not even one country came forward to extend help".Ambika Soni: "It’s sad that at such a time the leader of the Opposition is giving statements like the Uttarakhand govt should be dissolved. We have never discriminated while providing relief and we never will."Meenakshi Lekhi: "Chidambaram, other netas of Congress have Modi phobia. They need psychoanalysis. It is better to be a Rambo, than a dumbo or a scambo".Where will it all end? No one knows, but not anytime soon, we wager. Don't expect to have seen the last of the politicisation of Uttarakhand.