Priyanka Gandhi Vadra likens PM Narendra Modi to Duryodhan, Amit Shah hits back: Congress General Secretary from eastern Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday launched a veiled attack at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said the same kind of arrogance was the reason behind Duryodhan’s (the main villain of the epic Mahabharata) downfall. The Congress general secretary retorted the Prime Minister’s comments where he dubbed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi “bhrashtachari no 1,” referring to the Bofors Scam. Speaking at a rally in Ambala, Priyanka asserted that the country has never forgiven arrogance.
While campaigning for party candidate Kumari Selja ahead of the ongoing Lok Sabah polls 2019, Priyanka said that the ruling party always insult her family whenever they run out of issues. Sharing an epic from Mahabharat, Priyanka compared PM Modi to Duryodhan saying that he had the same kind of arrogance too. She added that when Lord Krishna went to Duryodhana to put the reality in front of him, he tried to capture Lord Krishna too. The Congress leader also recited lines of a poem, Krishna Ki Chetawani, written by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar.
Soon after her attack, the BJP did not miss a chance to hit back. Addressing a rally at Bengal’s Bishnupur, BJP president Amit Shah challenged Priyanka Gandhi saying that the country would decide who is Duryodhana and who is Arjun on May 23. He added that this is a democracy and nobody could become ‘Duryodhana’ just because one called them so.
Shah further added that the Opposition should not have created an issue out of PM Modi’s comment. He added that the prime minister had just reminded the Congress of a fact.
Earlier on Tuesday, PM Modi challenged the Congress saying that if they had guts then contest the remaining two phases of the polls on the name of former PM Rajiv Gandhi.
