
Shillong: Congress president Rahul Gandhi today fired his "suit-boot ki sarkar" salvo at Prime Minister Narendra Modi afresh, saying he was always found in the company of people attired in suits and not those that are poor..
Unruffled after being attacked by the Meghalaya unit of
the BJP over the price of the black jacket he wore yesterday
at a concert here, Gandhi said, "You will not see him (PM) hug
a poor person, talk to a poor person or even engage with a
poor person. You will see him with others.
"There is a particular distance he maintains with the
poor people which he does not with Mr Obama or others," he
told journalists.
"The fact of the matter is that he (Modi) is still a
suit-boot person. He has not done anything....," Gandhi said.
The Congress president said the prime minister had
promised to create 2 crore jobs a year but failed to achieve
the target.
In an apparent retort to Rahul Gandhi's suit-boot ki
sarkar jibe, the BJP had claimed the Congress President wore a
jacket worth USD 995 at a concert oragnised by his party in
the poll-bound state yesterday.
"So @OfficeOfRG, soot(pun intended!)-boot ki sarkar with
black money fleeced from Meghalayan State exchequer by
rampant corruption? Instead of singing away our woes, you
could have given a report card of your inefficient govt in
Meghalaya! Your indifference mocks us!," the BJP's Meghalaya
unit tweeted.
The party's state unit also tweeted an image of a jacket
similar to the one Gandhi wore having a price tag of USD 995
(little over Rs 63,000).
The BJP, which intends to give a tough fight to the
ruling Congress in the Meghalaya Assembly elections, also
accused the Congress of distracting voters by organising a
soiree.
"Rock concert distraction tactics by the @OfficeOfRG
to take away focus of Meghalayan voters from real issues on
ground! A prince can fuss over 'fuddy-duddy chopper' rides &
cancel his Tura trip, but ever wondered how people in
Meghalaya travel," the BJP tweeted.
Gandhi met Church representatives earlier today in the
Christian dominated state where elections to the 60-member
Assembly would be held on February 27.
Two Churches in Meghalaya recently turned down Rs 70
crore assistance announced by the Centre.
There are many different visions, missions and ideas
in the country and all of them should have a voice, Gandhi
said.
"There is tremendous anger and discomfort among a lot
of people and they believe that this country is made up of a
million perspectives, and to force only one perspective is not
right," Gandhi said.
PTI