BJP said the comments of Congress leaders like Mani Shankar Aiyar, Salman Khurshid and Shakeel Ahmed can not be viewed in a isolated manner, they appear to have a stamp of Gandhis. “BJP and RSS have created divisions between communities; RSS causes riots in the country”. In light of the recent crisis, Prime Minister Modi should take a lesson from them.
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Rahul was speaking for first-time after the allegation made by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy of owning a firm in England as a British citizen. He said, “It is under the 20-point programme initiated by Indira Gandhi that governments got work done for development of slum settlements as a result of which projects worth many crores of rupees are being implemented at present for development of slum settlements”.
Daring the PM he said, “I am not scared I will not back down and keep raising issues of farmers and poor and will keep on catching ur (BJP)lies”. Rahul Gandhi was addressing a function in New Delhi this evening.
Responding to the allegation, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala had said: “Frustrated by their humiliating defeat in Bihar elections and internal revolt brewing among the senior-most leadership, BJP’s dirty tricks department led by Subramanian Swamy is resorting to petty and mindless mud-slinging”. Sonia hailed the former Prime Minister as the “mother of millions” and as one who has left an “indelible impression” on history.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday dared the Modi government to jail him if he had done any wrong. “You are not in opposition, you are in government now”, Gandhi said. “She laid the foundation for removing poverty in the nation”, he said.
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After Mahajan, as also Azad and a number of other leaders, had finished paying the floral tributes, Sonia Gandhi walked in, expressing regrets for her delayed arrival, the sources said.
