Are you nervous about AAP? Congress taunts Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi went on the offensive in Goa yesterday, taking on not only the Congress, but in a first, also the Aam Aadmi Party. Though he didn’t name the Aam Aadmi Party or newly anointed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his reference to it was loud and clear. He asked the people not to be swayed by ’television faces’ and told them to vote for the tried and tested governance methods of the BJP. [caption id=“attachment_1336497” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  AFP[/caption] “Leading the country needs a big vision and implementation of the right policies. The country could advance only if it is led by leaders who have a tried and tested track record and experience. TV faces can’t do that well”, he said . And the Congress party it seems, is thoroughly amused. Party leader Shakeel Ahmed took to Twitter to ask if Modi was ’nervous’ about the fledgling party.As Firstpost editor Sanjay Singh pointed out : The BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate knows that he has already taken the campaign against the Congress to a certain level and has been successful in both creating and encashing on the rising exasperation against 10 years of Congress rule at the centre. Modi only had to keep going strong vis-à-vis the Grand Old Party but he realises that he can no longer afford to ignore the new kid on the block which has been gaining lot of traction in some of his social constituents.  The attack on Modi over his discomfiture over AAP, came even as other Congress leaders hit out at him for his comments on former Environment Minister, Jayanti Natarajan. In his rally Modi had said , “We had heard of Income Tax, Sales Tax but in Delhi a new kind tax, Jayanti (Natrajan) tax was being levied. A file in the environment ministry would not move without payment of the Jayanti tax.” Natarajan, in response, hit out at Modi saying that the BJP leader was targeting her as she has been at the forefront against his “divisive and destructive politics”. “It is a personal charge against me, it is absolutely false and baseles,” the former Environmental Minister told reporters. “It’s an utterly despicable attack on me since I have been publicaly speaking about his divisive and destructive politics,” she said. Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh attacked the BJP candidate’s comment as being in ‘bad taste’: