BJP slams Rahul Gandhi's speech, says fear of Modi clearly visible

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday slammed Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s address at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) terming Gandhi a ‘confused leader’.

Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar took a dig at the Congress vice president asking him why he didn’t implement any of his ideas in the last nine years.

“Rahul should have answered what he did in the past nine years. Instead he himself is asking questions,” Javadekar said.

Calling Gandhi a confused leader with a rather confused ideology, Javadekar said it was clear that Gandhi feared Modi.

“One could easily see Modi’s fear in him. He is a confused leader with a confused ideology. It was very clear, that there was a Modi phobia reflected in his speech,” Javadekar added.

“Where is the compassion Mr. Gandhi? We haven’t seen it in the drought in Maharashtra or Dhule riots,” party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.

Why haven’t these so called ideas that he has been articulating been implemented when his own government has been in power for nine years… They haven’t found it fit to implement these ideas?" she said.

Rahul Gandhi was speaking at the annual Confederation of Indian Industry meeting in New Delhi. During his address, the Congress scion stressed on opening up the value-chain to solve India’s problems as he or merely policy makers cannot solve everyone’s problems. Taking a dig at the BJP, Gandhi said politics of hatred are no answer to policy making either.

Spelling out his vision, Gandhi said India’s economic vision must be more than money, it must be about compassion and embracing the excluded and building institutional structures.

“How can you talk of Centre-State relationship when only MPs and MLAs are defining the Vidhan Sabhas?”, he asked.