Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday hit out at Congress vice-president Rahul for saying that the Prime Minister needs rest and described his comment as “cheap” and reflective of the fear and frustration of losing polls in Uttar Pradesh .
“Rahul might be speaking from his own experience of going out of the country and suddenly disappearing from the political scene...Not coming to Parliament to attend even the important debates. They are saying that the Prime Minister is tired. The Congress party is tired and the people want it to retire. That is what is happening. In order to cover up their frustration, they are making such cheap comments,” Naidu told reporters here.
The Minister was reacting to Gandhi’s reported comment at a rally in UP where he had said that Narendra Modi was tired and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav can lighten the PM’s burden and give him some rest by becoming the CM again.
Rahul also reportedly to have said, in 2019, they would take all the PM’s load in next lok Sabha elections and send him out of power.
Naidu said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was working “day-in and day-out” and covered more than 40 countries in a short span of time.
“There is no state, which he has not visited. There is no issue on which the prime minister is not focusing,” the Minister said.