Rahul Gandhi finds himself underneath immense hearth from the BJP over his feedback in London.
New Delhi:
The BJP on Thursday took a dig at Rahul Gandhi, with varied union ministers tweeting a video from the Congress chief’s press convention by which senior occasion chief Jairam Ramesh is seen correcting him.
The 25-second-long video, reveals Mr Gandhi telling reporters, “Unfortunately, I am a Member of Parliament”, after which Mr Ramesh leans over and advises the Congress chief that his remarks will be become a “joke”.
“Unfortunately, I am a Member of Parliament – they can make a joke,” Mr Ramesh tells Mr Gandhi.
Rahul Gandhi then proceeds to corrects himself: “See, I want to make it clear, unfortunately for you, I am a Member of Parliament.”
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal tweeted the video, throwing shade at Mr Gandhi. “Unfortunately, we are at a loss for words…” he wrote.
Unfortunately, we’re perplexed… pic.twitter.com/YZVk7mrlRt
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) March 16, 2023
Another union minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, too tweeted the video, calling it “Truly unfortunate”.
Truly unlucky 🤐 pic.twitter.com/A7fEBQ4PHP
— Dharmendra Pradhan (@dpradhanbjp) March 16, 2023
The BJP’s Amit Malviya requested if Jairam Ramesh is the “official nanny of Rahul Gandhi.”
Mr Ramesh was fast to hit again with a jab of his personal. “We speak freely to the media without teleprompters,” he tweeted.
The RW system is having a discipline day with my mentioning to @RahulGandhi that his assertion’s assemble can be distorted by BJP’s faux information machine. He clarified immediately. We communicate freely to the media with out teleprompters. This is one other try and distract from Modani rip-off.
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 16, 2023
Rahul Gandhi finds himself underneath immense hearth from the BJP over his feedback in London, with not less than 4 Union Ministers demanding his apology in and outdoors parliament. At a lecture at Cambridge University, the Congress MP mentioned the Indian democracy is underneath strain and opposition voices are being stifled.
The Congress chief mentioned the row over his London remarks was “just a distraction” from the questions he had raised in his speech in parliament final month. “I have a fundamental question about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relationship with Gautam Adani. The government and the PM are scared about the Adani issue, therefore this entire controversy has been prepared,” he mentioned.
The Congress and different opposition events have accused the ruling BJP of making an attempt to deflect consideration from the Adani-Hindenburg row and ducking calls for for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to analyze the allegations of Hindenburg towards the Adani Group. The Adani Group has strongly denied allegations of inventory fraud and share worth manipulation.
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