Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu today termed as "cheap" Rahul Gandhi's comment that the Prime Minister needs rest, saying it was made out of the fear and frustrations of losing assembly polls.

Taking a dig at Gandhi, he said the comments were coming from a person who himself do not have the patience to come to Parliament and attend important debates and who "disappears suddenly" from the country by going abroad. "Rahul might be speaking from his own experience of going out of the country and suddenly disappearing from the political scene...not coming to Parliament to attend even the important debates. They are saying that the Prime Minister is tired.


"The Congress party is tired and the people want to retire it. That is what is happening. In order to cover up their frustrations, they are making such cheap comments," Naidu told reporters in Delhi.


He was reacting to Gandhi's reported comment at a rally in Uttar Pradesh in which he had said that Narendra Modi was tired and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav can lighten the PM's burden and give him some rest by becoming the CM again.


Then, Rahul said, in 2019, they would take all the PM's load in next Lok Sabha elections and send him out of power. Countering the Congress Vice President's suggestions to Akhilesh, Naidu said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was working "day-in and day-out" and covered more than 40 countries in a short span of time.