Taking a dig at the BJP for criticizing his tractor ride on a ‘gaddi (cushion) put there by someone else’, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi quipped that the Prime Minister’s new Air India One plane, bought for more than Rs 8,000 crore of the taxpayers’ money, had not just a cushion but a whole lot of luxury beds for his comfort. “Why don’t you question them about this?” Rahul asked the media, while slamming the Prime Minister for wasting thousands of crores of rupees on the plane just because “his friend Donald Trump (US President) has one”.
“It is strange that nobody is seeing or questioning the VVIP Boeing 777 purchased for this whopping amount, but everyone being quick to point to the ‘gaddi’ which some well-wisher had put on a tractor for me,” he said.