Busting out at Rahul Gandhi’s speech targeting Prime Minster Narendra Modi and his government, the BJP leaders said that, Rahul is a lying machine, who keeps on misleading the house.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh denied the Rahul Gandhi’s claim that he was not kept in the loop before signing a peace pact with Naga insurgent group NSCN-IM. The BJP said that Rahul Gandhi’s speech in the Lok Sabha was “full of drama, but lacked in content” and he was a “non-serious, part-time politician”.
“Rahul Gandhi’s statement on Naga peace accord in Lok Sabha today is completely false and baseless. I had several rounds of consultations with the PM on the Naga peace process. I strongly condemn Rahul Gandhi’s attempt to mislead the House,” the Home Minister said.
On the other hand, Arun Jaitley’s Facebook post reads, “As one evolves from a young to a middle-aged one, we certainly expect a certain level of maturity.” he wrote. “The more I hear Shri Rahul Gandhi, the more I start wondering ‘how much does he know – when will he know.”
Denying Rahul’s allegation that Modi did not discuss matters with his government or the opposition, Jaitley said that, along with working hard in the functioning of several government departments, the PM even inspires his team to work harder.
Every minister, including External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, the Home Minister and he himself, is responsible for each important decision taken by their departments, Jaitley said.
“The Prime Minister should be the natural leader of the party and the Government. In the NDA it is so. The UPA was quite different. The Prime Minister is to lead by example.” Taking a swipe at the Gandhis - the BJP has always called them remote-controls of the UPA government - Jaitley said: “We do not bypass the Prime Minister who is always available for consultation and guidance.”
Rahul Gandhi’s comments are shaped by the political environment around him, the finance minister opined.
After hearing Rahul, Jaitley said, he felt “India has made the right choice between the Prime Minister who leads the Government and a Prime Minister who is merely implementing decisions taken elsewhere.”
Swaraj also rejected Rahul’s remarks that even the Foreign Minister was unaware of Modi’s sudden trip to Lahore.
“I would like to correct the record. After a conversation with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister Modi called me, seeking my opinion on his visit to Lahore. I told him that it would be an out -of-the-box initiative and he should go to Lahore…This was a novel initiative, which got appreciated in the country.”
“If I would have been present there (in the House), I would have responded to his statement. I reached home and saw his speech, which is not correct,” Swaraj said.
Tagging Rahul as a “lying machine”, BJP national secretary, Shrikant Sharma said that Rahul’s speech was “devoid” of facts. Hitting back at his “fair and lovely scheme” jibe at the government’s scheme to tackle black money, the BJP leader said no “fair and lovely” comments could clean up the “black deeds” of the Congress.
By Phani Ch
