The Congress on Tuesday hit out at Home Minister Amit Shah over his statement on multi-party democracy. The party said if accepted, the thinking will deliver a "body blow" to federal India. The Congress also accused Shah of "belittling" India's multi-party democracy. Congress senior spokesperson Anand Sharma said the BJP chief is questioning the collective wisdom of the founding fathers of the Constitution. He also said the NDA itself is an alliance of multi parties as he invoked BJP allies Nitish Kumar, Parkash Singh Badal and Uddhav Thackeray to respond.

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Sharma said he hopes that Kumar, Badal, Thackeray and others "are listening". Amit Shah on Tuesday attacked the Congress for its "culture of policy paralysis". In addition, he alleged that corruption and unguarded borders prior to 2014 saying people then wondered whether India's multi-party democratic system had failed. He said the state of the country during Congress rule was such that the common man was clueless as to where the nation was headed and whether the leadership was actually able to steer the country out of this mess.

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Home Minister Amit Shah slams Congress

"After nearly 70 years of independence, there was a question in the minds of the people whether the vision of the founding fathers had really been realized. Whether the multi-party democratic system had failed to fulfil the aspirations of the citizens of the country," he said, addressing an event of the All India Management Association. 

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