LUCKNOW, Nov. 4 -- Union health minister and former BJP national president JP Nadda on Tuesday accused the Congress of having a worse record on civil liberties than the British, citing the arrests during the Emergency under Indira Gandhi.

"Even the British didn't jail as many Indians as Indira Gandhi did," Nadda said at the BJP's 'Loktantra Bachao, Arajakta Hatao' padyatra in Bareilly.

He led the march that drew a sizeable turnout of workers, local leaders and supporters, as part of BJP's nationwide counter-offensive to INDIA bloc's November 1 Ramlila Maidan rally against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, Union minister and RLD ...