Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Kiren Rijiju ripped into Sonia Gandhi Tuesday over an editorial written by the former Congress chief in a national daily, in which she accused prime minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party of 'systematically dismantling all three pillars of India's democracy' and warned the ruling party 'enforcing silence cannot solve India's problems'.

Law minister Rijiju, who found mention in Sonia Gandhi's letter - she referred to his calling some judges 'anti national', slammed the Congress MP for 'lecturing about democracy' and said the Congress talking about independence of judiciary is an 'illusory statement of the highest improbity'.