India, Feb. 4 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's "traitor" jibe at former party colleague Ravneet Singh Bittu in Parliament on Wednesday seems to have gone beyond it intended to with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) now launching an all out attack at the MP, linking the remarks to Operation Bluestar.

Congress Rahul Gandhi was on Wednesday protesting in Parliament complex over the suspension of eight party MPs and his demand for having the unpublished memoir of former army chief MM Naravane, which carries his account of the India-China border standoff, allowed in the House.

Ravneet Singh Bittu walked towards the protesting MPs, prompting Rahul Gandhi to initiate a handshake which was rejected, as the gesture came with the remarks, "here i...