Image Source : PTI (FILE) Kapil Sibal stated that BJP’s allegations that the Congress is attempting to ‘divide and rule’ have been laughable.
Senior Congress chief Kapil Sibal has sought to stability the criticism of celebration chief Rahul Gandhi over his ‘North vs South’ comment made at a public assembly in Kerala earlier this week. Sibal stated that the ‘knowledge of the electors’ needs to be revered.
Sibal, one of many 23 leaders who brazenly questioned celebration management, stated that the BJP’s allegations that the Congress is attempting to ‘divide and rule’ have been laughable. He stated that it’s the BJP which is dividing the nation.
“I am nobody to comment on what he (Rahul Gandhi) said. He said it and he can explain in what context he said it… (but) we must respect electors in the country and not denigrate their wisdom. They know who to vote for and why,” information company ANI quoted Sibal as saying.
“(And) it is laughable that that the BJP is saying the Congress is trying to divide the country. This is a government that has divided people since it came to power in 2014,” he added.
Rahul Gandhi is going through a barrage of criticism from the BJP over his controversial ‘North vs South’ comment made in his residence constituency Wayand in Kerala. The saffron celebration has accused him of being an ‘opportunist’ and alleged that he belittled north Indians.
“For the first 15 years, I was an MP in the north. I had got used to a different type of politics. For me, coming to Kerala was very refreshing as suddenly I found that people are interested in issues and not just superficially but going into detail in issues,” the previous Congress chief stated whereas addressing a public gathering in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
Senior BJP chief and Amethi MP Smriti Irani referred to as him “ungrateful” and stated the favored saying about such an individual is “one without much knowledge blabbers more”. Irani had defeated Rahul in his household bastion Amethi in the course of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Rahul, who was representing Amethi constituency of Uttar Pradesh within the Lok Sabha since 2004, contested from Wayanad constituency in Kerala concurrently. Although he misplaced Amethi to Smriti Irani, he received from the Congress bastion in Kerala.
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