New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI): Amid the disagreement between the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) and the Congress over the ‘Ravana’ jibe hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by the get together’s nationwide president Mallikarjun Kharge, senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh on Thursday attacked PM over a “cheaper and crasser remark” towards his predecessor Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Taking to Twitter, Ramesh stated, “Ought to I remind Mr Modi of what he stated on February 8, 2017 in Rajya Sabha about Dr Manmohan Singh– that he knew the ‘artwork of bathing with a raincoat on’?. Can there be a less expensive and crasser remark by any PM on his predecessor, and that too within the very temple of democracy?”
Ramesh additionally retweeted a submit by ANI on Prime Minister Modi’s public assembly at Kalol, Panchmahal in Gujarat, amid the primary section of poling for the Meeting, on Thursday.
Hitting again at Kharge for evaluating him with the legendary hydra-headed emperor within the epic ‘Ramayana’, the PM stated there’s a competitors amongst Congress leaders on who can abuse him extra.
The PM stated, “I respect Kharge ji. He’ll say what he has been informed to say. Congress get together doesn’t know that that is the Gujarat of Ram Bhakts. And, on this land of Rambhakts, he was requested to name me a Ravan with 10 heads.”
The PM additional stated that Congress doesn’t settle for Lord Ram’s existence however invoked Ravan to abuse him.
“We all know that Congress doesn’t settle for the existence of Lord Ram, doesn’t imagine in Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir. They’ve an issue with Ram Setu as properly. Now, this Congress get together has invoked Ravan from Ramayana to hurl insults at me,” he stated.
The PM stated he was amazed to see that not one of the Congress leaders ever felt regret or regretted the quite a few abuses they heaped on him.
“I’m not shocked at Congress saying dangerous issues about me. I’m amazed that even after saying so many dangerous issues, neither the Congress get together nor its leaders have by no means regretted their phrases about me. They really feel it’s their proper to abuse Modi and the PM of this nation,” Modi stated.
The PM additional alleged that Congress leaders can do something to please one household.
“In the event that they believed in democracy, they might have by no means stooped to this degree. They imagine in a single household and never democracy. They will do something to please that one household and that household is every little thing to them, not democracy,” the PM stated.
“There’s a competitors within the Congress on who can hurl extra insults at Modi…Now we have to show them a lesson and the best way to take action is to press the button on the Lotus image on December fifth (second section of the Meeting elections),” the PM stated.
“The Congress ought to perceive that the extra grime it throws at me, the extra the lotus will bloom,” he added.
Campaigning for the Congress in Gujarat, Kharge had stated, “In his campaigns, he (Modi) solely talks about himself. ‘Don’t have a look at anybody else, simply have a look at Modi and vote’… what number of instances do we now have to see your face? What number of varieties do you may have? Do you may have 10 heads like Ravan?”
Responding to the PM’s counter on Thursday, the Congress nationwide president stated the BJP was enjoying up the difficulty to divert folks’s consideration from actual issues.
“By making this a difficulty, Modi is diverting folks’s consideration from points like unemployment, inflation, GDP progress, growth and poverty,” Kharge stated.
Earlier, on Sunday, Kharge got here down arduous on the PM, terming him as a “chief of lies”.
The counting of votes for Gujarat will happen on December 8. (ANI)
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