NEW DELHI: Union Minister and senior BJP chief Smriti Irani on Wednesday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi after a tweet from Congress’ Twitter deal with declared her “missing.” Hitting out on the fundamental opposition occasion, Irani mentioned Congress ought to “contact US” if they’re on the lookout for Rahul Gandhi. “O divine political creature, I have just left Sirsira village, Vidhan Sabha Salon, Lok Sabha Amethi towards Dhuranpur. If looking for former MP, please contact US,” she mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.
हे दिव्य राजनीतिक प्राणी , मैं अभी सिरसिरा गाँव , विधान सभा सलोन , लोक सभा अमेठी से निकली हूँ धूरनपुर की ओर । अगर पूर्व सांसद को ढूँढ रहे हो तो कृपया अमेरिका संपर्क करें । https://t.co/2rEUKLPCK8
— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) May 31, 2023
The response from Irani got here shortly after the Congress shared a poster indicating Irani was “missing,” in an obvious dig on the Union Minister’s silence over the continued wrestlers’ protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.
गुमशुदा pic.twitter.com/oOHzdFJuQw
— Congress (@INCIndia) May 31, 2023
It could also be famous that Irani had wrested Amethi – the Gandhi household stronghold by defeating Rahul Gandhi in 2019. Rahul Gandhi, who confronted defeat in Amethi, gained from Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency that he misplaced after being sentenced to 2 years in jail by a Surat courtroom in a defamation case earlier this yr.
Rahul Gandhi is at present touring the US the place his newest assault on the Narendra Modi authorities has irked the ruling BJP as soon as once more. Speaking at a gathering of the Indian diaspora in California on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi mentioned, “I feel if you happen to sat Modi Ji down subsequent to God, he would begin explaining to God how the universe works. And God would get confused about what I’ve created.”
Notable, Smriti Irani final week urged the individuals of Kerala to make sure the defeat of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad as he disadvantaged Amethi of improvement and he’ll do the identical in his constituency of the southern state.
Crediting herself for having ousted Rahul Gandhi from the Gandhi household Lok Sabha bastion in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi, she mentioned that the Congress chief, who was elected as a member of Parliament from Kerala’s Wayanad, ought to be defeated within the upcoming normal elections subsequent yr.
“It was me who sent him to Wayanad from Uttar Pradesh. What was the reason behind (Congress) sending him to Wayanad? When he was an MP there, 80 per cent of the people didn’t have electricity, the district collector didn’t have an office, there was no fire station. When the Wayanad MP (Rahul Gandhi) was in Amethi, there was no medical college. There was no Sainik School or Kendriya Vidyalaya. When he left (in 2019), all this was possible,” the Union Minister mentioned.
“If he (Rahul Gandhi) is here (Wayanad), the same (previous) situation as Amethi will be in Wayanad. So you (the people of Kerala) should ensure that he is not here,” she instructed whereas addressing the state-level ladies’s labour conference’s inauguration organised by the Kerala unit of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS).
