BJP: Rahul won't succeed in ripping apart PM's image

NEW DELHI: In its fresh attack on Rahul Gandhi, BJP on Tuesday said the Congress member's continued bid to malign the image of PM Modi will not succeed as people of India are with the PM.
It also said Rahul's refusal to apologise to the OBC community for his "indecent" comments is yet another "manifestation" of the Gandhi family's political arrogance.
"In an interview to a magazine in 2019, Rahul in his own words had claimed Modi's greatest strength is his image and that he will rip his image apart," WCD minister Smriti Irani said, adding, "But he will not succeed as the people of India are with Modi."
On Congress raising questions over Rahul being served a notice to vacate his official bungalow, she said the property does not belong to him, but the people.
"The political psychosis of Rahul is at full display. He abused and accused Modi in Parliament but couldn't verify his own statement by authenticating it with his signature," Irani said. Such is Rahul's political frustration that a promise he made could not fructify and hence, he continues with his tirade against Modi, she added. The "venom" that Rahul has been spewing against the PM in his "political frustration" has now turned into an insult to India, Irani alleged.
"One example of it you saw is his England visit," she said and alleged that Rahul has neither anything to do with India's democracy. "His only target is Modi. Modi's only target is the country's development," Irani said.
"The country saw Rahul's political arrogance at display when a Dalit leader of Congress was made to pick up his footwear," she said, without naming the leader.
"When BJP proposed the name of Droupadi Murmu, belonging to a poor tribal family, as a candidate for presidential poll, Congress leadership, under the tutelage of Gandhi family, unleashed vile attacks on her," Irani said.
She also hit out at Congress leadership over the alleged remarks by the party's youth wing president Srinivas BV against her, saying the words he used were of Rahul and the 'sanskar' (teachings) of Sonia Gandhi.