NEW DELHI: A battery of Union ministers took on Congress for its attack on the government over lynching incidents with finance minister Piyush Goyal calling
Rahul Gandhi “merchant of hate”.
The Congress president had said the latest lynching incident in Alwar was a reflection of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “brutal New India”.
“Stop jumping with joy every time a crime happens, Rahul Gandhi. The state has already assured strict and prompt action. You divide society in every manner possible for electoral gains and then shed crocodile tears. Enough is enough. You are a merchant of hate,” Goyal tweeted.
I&B minister
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, a
Lok Sabha MP from Jaipur, asked Rahul to stop using a crime for political gains. “The local police are already on the case. Justice will be served. Stop sowing seeds of hatred in society simply for a few votes,” he tweeted.
Textiles minister
Smriti Irani said Rahul’s family had presided over the worst form of hate in 1984, after the killing of then Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi. “It is shameful that he is doing the same through vulture politics... not a single instance goes by where he doesn’t attempt to rupture social bonds for electoral gains,” she tweeted.
