Look for Rahul, not Modi’s flaws: Amit Shah’s dig at Congress

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, April 3, 2015:  BJP president Amit Shah on Friday took a dig at the opposition Congress, saying the party should first search for its "missing" vice-president Rahul Gandhi than look for flaws in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 10-mont rule at the Centre.

"Instead of trying to find fault with the PM’s coalition government, the Congress should find its missing leader," Shah said at the BJP’s National Executive meeting that began in Bangalore on Friday.

While Shah was making those remarks, a group of Congress workers were protesting outside the venue of the BJP’s annual meet against BJP MP Giriraj Singh’s sexist statement on the colour of Sonia Gandhi’s skin. The Congress has demanded the sacking of the Union minister and an apology from Modi.

Singh, who had courted controversies in the past too with remarks during Lok Sabha elections like people opposed to Modi can go to Pakistan, had also mocked Rahul Gandhi’s absence from the political scene and likened it to the missing Malaysian airliner.

"Imagine a situation. If Congress was in power instead of us and had Rahul been the Prime Minister, and if for some reason, the PM had disappeared for more than 47 days. Absence of the Congress vice-president is similar to that of the missing Malaysian airliner that still has not been located. The same way the Congress leader was not present in the Budget session. No one in Congress is ready to speak. This is unfortunate for the Congress and a joke for the country," he said.

Meanwhile, Sonia had on Thursday said Rahul, who has been on a prolonged leave of absence, "will be back soon". The 44-year-old leader is expected to be back in New Delhi on April 12, ahead of his party’s big rally against land bill and Parliament session beginning later this month.

 

Courtesy: Indiatoday