Rahul Gandhi has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah of trying to deflect attention from the unrest in the Northeast, where angry protests have broken out against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Rahul Gandhi defends himself after Parliament uproar
- Tweets old clip of PM Modi calling Delhi India’s ‘rape capital’
- BJP had asked Rahul Gandhi to apologise for remarks
Instead, he’s training his guns on the BJP — which has launched a furious attack on him for his comments — and accused Prime Minister Modi and BJP president Amit Shah of trying to deflect attention from the unrest in the Northeast, where angry protests have broken out against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
He defended himself in a brief interaction with reporters today, and then posted this tweet, along with an old clip of Modi calling Delhi India’s “rape capital”:
Rahul Gandhi✔@RahulGandhi
Modi should apologise.
1. For burning the North East.
2. For destroying India’s economy.
3. For this speech, a clip of which I’m attaching.
Arjun Ram Meghwal, the junior minister for parliamentary affairs, said the Congressman should apologise.
Union Minister Smriti Irani, a longtime rival of Rahul Gandhi’s who wrested his Amethi seat from him this year, said he had given “a clarion call” that Indian women should be raped.
When Kanimozhi, a DMK MP, defended Rahul Gandhi’s comments, Irani said she was “disgusted” and “extremely disheartened” that she couldn’t transcend party divsions even on an issue such as crimes against women.
Prasanta Patnaik