BJP has forced Rahul to visit Amethi more often: Smriti Irani

IANS  |  Lucknow 

on Friday took a dig at for visiting his parliamentary constituency more often and said this was because she had done a lot of work there and in the process rattled Gandhi.

On a brief halt outside the on way to Amethi, from where she unsuccessfully contested the 2014 polls, Irani said the BJP government had fulfilled all the promises made to the people of

After seeing so much work being done in the past five years in his pocket borough, Gandhi was forced to step up his visits to

"Earlier these visits by the were seasonal... One or two in five years but now they are many a times," she said.

She added that while she was in Amethi to work, Gandhi would camp there for two days.

Irani is scheduled to flag off some developmental projects in Amethi, the constituency she has been nurturing since 2014, despite her defeat to Gandhi in the 2014 polls.

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First Published: Fri, January 04 2019. 14:38 IST