Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “personal attacks” on him, Congress president Rahul Gandhi asked him to instead speak on governance and development issues.
At a public rally here on Thursday, Mr. Gandhi said the way Mr. Modi spoke from public platforms was unbecoming of the Prime Minister of a country. He said Mr. Modi was resorting to personal attacks as he had nothing to say in response to the questions he had raised on his governance.
“I had asked a couple of questions. Since Mr. Modi gives lengthy speeches on corruption, I had first asked him why his party chose B.S. Yeddyurappa, the man who went to jail on corruption charges, as its chief ministerial candidate for Karnataka. Secondly, I had asked him why he allowed Nirav Modi to escape with Rs. 30,000 crore public money, the amount equal to what the previous UPA government annually spent for providing work to rural labourers under MNREGA. I had asked him how his friend Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah multiplied Rs. 50,000 to make it Rs. 80 crore in a year. He is choosing to ridicule me with personal attacks because he has no answers to my questions,” he said.