'Don't need your certificate': Gadkari pans Rahul, prompts 'huge apology'

February 04, 2019 23:09

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday hit back at Rahul Gandhi, saying he did not need a certificate of courage from the Congress president after the latter had described him as the only person in BJP with guts over a comment on domestic responsibilities.

Rahul Gandhis remarks had come in response to Gadkaris address to former workers of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, student wing of RSS, to fulfil their domestic responsibilities before working for the party or the country and that those who cannot do deliver at home, cannot manage the country.

Gadkari said Rahul Gandhi was relying on twisted media reports to attack the Narendra Modi government, which he said would come back to power again after the Lok Sabha elections and work with full strength to take the country forward.

Rahulji I dont need a certificate of courage from you, but I am surprised that as president of a national Party, you are referring to twisted reports filed by the media to attack our government, he said in a series of tweets in Hindi.

This is the strength Modi and our government that you have to take the support of others shoulders, he said.

In another tweet, Gadkari sought to respond to the Congress presidents request to speak up on three topics that he wanted the minister to speak about the Rafale scam and Anil Ambani, farmers distress and destruction of institutions.

On the issues you have raised, I would like to say that our government has made the Rafale deal keeping the countrys interests in front. Modijis honest policies have been to bring farmers out of the crisis that your (Congresss) policies had put them in.

You are not able to bear that Modi has become the Prime Minister, so you are getting dreams of intolerance and attacking of constitutional institutions, Gadkari said, hoping that Rahul Gandhi would behave with rationality and responsibility in the future.

In another tweet, which came after Gadkaris response to his first, Rahul Gandhi asked the minister to speak up on the issue of jobs generation too. This time, Rahul, in a jab, issued a huge apology for having forgotten the most important issue.

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