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New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) The BJP on Saturday targeted Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for spending a ‘holiday’ abroad and wondered what excuse the ‘missing’ leader would make after the grand alliance’s possible defeat in the Bihar assembly elections next month.
“If Rahul Gandhi has learned how to make coffee and take holidays in Colombia, he should return to India. Bihar elections have been announced and voting will begin in less than a month,” Amit Malviya, in-charge of BJP’s national information and technology department, said in a post on Twitter.
Expressing confidence of a big victory for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the assembly elections to be held on November 6 and 11 in Bihar, Malviya said, “The grand alliance will lose again. And, like always, the Congress will blame everyone except its missing leader!”
In an earlier comment about Gandhi’s foreign visit, Malviya accused the Congress leader of presenting the country in a bad light and declaring that “India does not want to lead the world”.
On October 4, Malviya attached a video clip of Gandhi addressing the audience and said, “We don’t need leaders like Rahul Gandhi, who can’t even dream big. Today’s India is aspirational, confident and visionary, not docile or hesitant.”
He said, “At a time when India is emerging as a rising power on the global stage, its economy is growing faster than any other, its citizens are realizing the value of their passports and doors of opportunity are opening across the world, Rahul Gandhi, shaped by years of self-loathing and low self-esteem, declares that India does not want to lead the world.”
“This is the mentality that has cost India in the past, leading to partition, losing parts of Kashmir to Pakistan and China, giving up the UNSC seat, relying on imports instead of building domestic capabilities in the nuclear and military sectors, choosing the socialist model instead of investing in future development… the list goes on. The Nehru-Gandhi family has failed India time and again,” Malviya said.
Malviya’s comments came in response to the Congress leader’s reported speech in which he had said, “I don’t think India has any intention of leading the world one day. We understand we are a big country and we have weight… but I don’t think we see ourselves leading the world.”
The BJP had earlier attacked the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha for giving a wrong portrayal of India in his speech abroad. Speaking at the EIA University in Medellin, Colombia, Gandhi had said that “India does not do manufacturing,” Malviya claimed, adding that the country is a manufacturing economy in 2025.
–IANS
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