The BJP on Sunday claimed that Congress was intending to contest only 150 seats even as its president Rahul Gandhi dreams of becoming Prime Minister of the country and took a jibe at him saying he may have forced a hug on Prime Minister Narendra Modi but that would not win him peoples mandate in 2019.
Attacking Rahul over his speech at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting Sunday, BJP’s national media in-charge Anil Baluni said the people will reject him in the next general election.
He also claimed that the Congress had decided to contest only 150 seats in the lok Sabha polls, while Gandhi was dreaming to become the Prime Minister.
“Heard that desperate and disappointed Congress at its meeting today has set a target of contesting 150 lok Sabha seats, while its president Rahul Gandhi is dreaming to become prime minister,” Baluni tweeted in Hindi.
Referring to the Congress chief’s hug to Modi during the debate on the no-confidence motion against the Government in the lok Sabha on Friday, the BJP leader said it was done forcibly.
“Rahulji, you forcibly hugged Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament but people will not hug you in the 2019 general election. You should prepare yourself for bringing a no-confidence motion in 2024,” he tweeted.
On former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s comments on Modi at the CWC meet, Baluni, Rajaya Sabha member, said while the aim of the Government led by the former was to increase corruption, the current NDA dispensation was aiming to double the farmers’ income.