Lucknow, June 16 -- Bharatiya Janata Party state president and Union minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary on Monday condemned senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot's statement, saying it has once again exposed the party's dictatorial character. Gehlot's remarks prove that the Congress's history has been one of crushing political opponents and suppressing the sentiments and voice of Hindu society, Chaudhary said. The Congress's continuous political decline results from being cut off from its roots, Sanatan culture, and democratic values, he added. Senior Congress leader and former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot sparked a controversy when he claimed that if former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi were alive today, she would have banned the BJP. Chaudhary said India is run not by the will of any individual, but by strong democratic institutions, constitutional systems, and the power of public opinion. The people of the country have rejected the Congress' divisive and anti-democratic mindset before and will continue to reject it in the future, he added. The working style of the Congress, which held democracy hostage by imposing the Emergency, still appears driven by a repressive mindset, he said. "Statements by Congress leaders from time to time keep exposing this tendency. In a democracy, dialogue, tolerance, and respect for public sentiment are paramount, while the Congress's history has been the opposite," he said....