LUCKNOW, Sept. 19 -- Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Congress and its allies, saying they were engaged in "deplorable disorder" to discredit the people's mandate and would soon be wiped out.

Addressing reporters here, Naqvi said the Congress-led "rabble-rousing lobby" was writing the script of its own defeat by raising the bogey of "vote chori" (vote theft). He mocked the Opposition's campaign as a "vote theft horror show" that had turned out to be a "super flop," adding that the "hydrogen bomb" conspiracy launched by the Congress was nothing more than a "water balloon".

Naqvi accused the Congress and Samajwadi Party of being those who conside...