BJP president JP Nadda and Union Ministers Prakash Javadekar, Smriti Irani and RK Singh on Wednesday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his north and south politics remark, alleging that insulting Indians was a favourite pastime of his.
“Insulting Indians is a favourite pastime of Rahul Gandhi. Indians are not superficial you are Mr Rahul Gandhi.” tweeted Javadekar.
Senior BJP leaders slamming responses came a day after Rahul’s statement where he said that Kerala was a refreshing experience for him after 15 years as an MP in the north.
Similar tweets were made by BJP president. “A few days back he was in the Northeast, spewing venom against the western part of India. Today in the South he is spewing venom against the North. Divide and rule politics won’t work, Rahul Gandhi Ji! People have rejected this politics. See what happened in Gujarat today!”, said Nadda.
After Congress justified Rahul’s remarks. Irani said that she completely agrees with Environment Minister Javadekar’s statement that “insulting India and its citizens is the favourite pastime of Rahul Gandhi.”
Speaking to television channels, Irani said that this is not the first time that the Congress leader has said something against the country and its people.
The Union Minister said, “A neta’s job is to keep the whole country united and think for the interest of the country and its people, despite his/her own political indifferences.”
Taking a dig at the Wayanad (Kerala) MP whom she had defeated in the 2019 Amethi Lok Sabha election, Smriti Irani alleged, “Rahul Gandhi is the same person who on Republic Day had voiced his opinion in favour of country’s division during tractor rally violence.”
She also claimed that earlier, Rahul had also questioned the Indian Army on how it had attacked its enemy-nation Pakistan.
The Minister said, “My only question is that is Rahul Gandhi has so much hatred for India and its people then why is he engaging in country’s politics and pretending that he is always wishing for India’s best interests’”.
She alleged that the Congress leader was creating “divisions” while a leader should be uniting the country .
Union Minister and Lok Sabha MP from Bihar’s Arrah constituency RK Singh said “Rahul Gandhi is talking about North and South , but if you do not work in any Constituency then you will be defeated. This is what happened to you in Amethi (Uttar Pradesh). You did not work, that’s why the public voted out. Even if you do not work in Kerala the public will vote out.”
“You think that if you keep winning from one constituency to another constituency, then it is not going to last long. you have to work, having been MP three times in a Constituency you lost the election because you did not do any developmental work. Do not divide people into North and South. People (of Kerala) are from India and if you do not work, then you will be voted out from here also,” he said.
Rahul’s ignorance about the presence of Fisheries Ministry had earlier in the weekmade him a subject of criticism from the BJP leaders.