By IANS
MUMBAI: In a counter-attack to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s jibes at Rahul Gandhi’s expensive T-shirt, the Maharashtra Congress hit again by questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s costly swimsuit, watches, shades, automotive and plane, right here on Saturday.
State Congress President Nana Patole stated that as an alternative of worrying about Rahul Gandhi’s T-shirt, the BJP ought to concern itself with PM Modi’s Rs 10 lakh swimsuit, Rs 12 lakh automotive, Rs 1.5 lakh shades, Rs 80,000 scarf and the Rs 8,000-crore plane wherein he flies.
“After owning all this, he continues to call himself a ‘fakir’ (beggar). The BJP should worry how the Modi government has brought the 130-crore people of the country to the streets. Due to this government’s miserable performance, its end is near,” stated Patole.
The Congress chief claimed at a media briefing that the BJP is sleepless as Rahul’s Kanyakumari to Kashmir ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is getting an amazing response wherever it’s passing.
“The BJP has got a strong blow with the public spontaneously thronging the Yatra in large numbers and that is why it is raking up petty issues like the price-tag of Rahul Gandhi’s T-shirt,” Patole stated.
He added that dozens of BJP ministers, leaders and spokespersons predicting that the Congress is completed and Rahul doesn’t matter now, are paradoxically working full-time to criticise and defame him (Rahul) and the Yatra.
“The BJP is shaken by the response to the Yatra from day one… Rahul is fighting for the masses and raising the issues of the common man like spiralling inflation, massive unemployment, the state of the economy, the problems of farmers and workers, etc. with whom he is interacting during the long march,” Patole identified.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra will cowl 3,500 km by way of 12 states and a couple of Union Territories in 150 days and even because it has simply begun, the BJP is getting rattled and resorting to such diversionary points, he stated.
Entering Maharashtra on November 7, the Yatra will go round masking 383 km in 6 of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies over 16 days, with numerous individuals together with celebrities anticipated to affix it.
MUMBAI: In a counter-attack to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s jibes at Rahul Gandhi’s expensive T-shirt, the Maharashtra Congress hit again by questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s costly swimsuit, watches, shades, automotive and plane, right here on Saturday.
State Congress President Nana Patole stated that as an alternative of worrying about Rahul Gandhi’s T-shirt, the BJP ought to concern itself with PM Modi’s Rs 10 lakh swimsuit, Rs 12 lakh automotive, Rs 1.5 lakh shades, Rs 80,000 scarf and the Rs 8,000-crore plane wherein he flies.
“After owning all this, he continues to call himself a ‘fakir’ (beggar). The BJP should worry how the Modi government has brought the 130-crore people of the country to the streets. Due to this government’s miserable performance, its end is near,” stated Patole.
The Congress chief claimed at a media briefing that the BJP is sleepless as Rahul’s Kanyakumari to Kashmir ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is getting an amazing response wherever it’s passing.
“The BJP has got a strong blow with the public spontaneously thronging the Yatra in large numbers and that is why it is raking up petty issues like the price-tag of Rahul Gandhi’s T-shirt,” Patole stated.
He added that dozens of BJP ministers, leaders and spokespersons predicting that the Congress is completed and Rahul doesn’t matter now, are paradoxically working full-time to criticise and defame him (Rahul) and the Yatra.
“The BJP is shaken by the response to the Yatra from day one… Rahul is fighting for the masses and raising the issues of the common man like spiralling inflation, massive unemployment, the state of the economy, the problems of farmers and workers, etc. with whom he is interacting during the long march,” Patole identified.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra will cowl 3,500 km by way of 12 states and a couple of Union Territories in 150 days and even because it has simply begun, the BJP is getting rattled and resorting to such diversionary points, he stated.
Entering Maharashtra on November 7, the Yatra will go round masking 383 km in 6 of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies over 16 days, with numerous individuals together with celebrities anticipated to affix it.