WEB DESK / NEW DELHI
Responding to the Congress onslaught on Prime minister Modi after the new revelations in the Rafale controversy, the BJP Saturday hit back with allegations and attacks on former.
“(Rahul Gandhi and Congress) betray their sense of desperation in being out-of-power. In our govt there is no corruption. No wonder today the buzz is #RahulKaPuraKhandanChor (Rahul Gandhi’s entire family are thieves),” Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted.
Earlier, at a news conference, her cabinet colleague and senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “Why was the Rafale deal sent back for re-examination in 2012 just six months after Dassault was identified as the lowest bidder? Our explicit charge is this: they (Congress) did not get a bribe, that’s why.
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Truth is clearly not Rahul Gandhi's forte, but even dignity is too much to expect from him!
His only qualification is a surname. His entire family has bn involved in scams. Ironic of him to blame PM @narendramodi ji, India's most honest PM,in Rafale deal!#RahulKaPuraKhandanChor
— Col Rajyavardhan Rathore (@Ra_THORe) September 22, 2018
Mr Prasad lashed out at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi who said former French President Francois Hollande “is calling PM Modi a thief”. An interview of Mr Hollande to a French journal stoked a major controversy yesterday after he said that the Indian government had mandated that industrialist Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence must be taken up as the Indian partner in the deal with France’s Dassault Aviation.
“It is very shameful, irresponsible. No national president of any party has used such words against a PM of the country before. We can’t expect anything else from Rahul Gandhi. He is chargesheeted in the National Herald case with his mother. He is silent on land grabbing case against his brother-in-law,” Mr Prasad said.
The Law Minister’s press conference was followed up by a flurry of tweets from his colleagues and BJP supporters on Twitter who made #RahulKaPuraKhandanChor the top trend on the social networking site.