Congress leader Kapil Sibal said Subramanian Swamy would implode on the BJP. (File Photo)
Congress on Monday took a veiled dig at Subramanian Swamy describing the BJP lawmaker as "nuclear fissile material" brought in Parliament by the ruling party which was bound to "implode".
"They have brought nuclear fissile material in Parliament and has kept it there. It will implode them. Arun Jaitley is feeling being imploded", party spokesman Kapil Sibal said without taking the name of Mr Swamy.
Apparently referring to Mr Swamy's attacks on Mr Jaitley, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan and Finance Ministry officials, he said that such a thing had never happened during the UPA rule.
He also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP for targeting Congress over the Emergency imposed 41 years ago by Indira Gandhi.
"How do you have an anniversary on Emergency and how do you do a 'Mann ki Baat' on Emergency," he wondered.
Alleging that there was a "silent emergency" in place since the Narendra Modi government took over, he claimed that even BJP veteran LK Advani had spoken of the danger.
Mr Advani, he recalled, had remarked sometime back that "at the present point of time the forces that can crush democracy, notwithstanding the provisions of the Constitution and legal safeguards, are stronger."
Insisting that the issue of Emergency was being raised by the ruling party for "petty politics", he said the Emergency of 1975 can never happen today because of amendments in the Constitution.