Smriti Irani hits back at Rahul Gandhi: 'No prizes for guessing who was inspired by Hitler'

Responding to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's remark drawing parallels between NDA government and the Nazi regime, Union minister Smriti Irani on Friday hit back, saying there were "no prizes for guessing who was inspired by Hitler".

@OfficeOfRG u r 42 yrs late on this 1.No prizes for guessing who was inspired by Hitler, imposed the emergency & trampled over democracy.

— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) July 21, 2017

The newly-appointed information and broadcasting (I&B) minister further took a dig at Congress, saying a bleak future was awaiting the party.

@OfficeOfRG a bleak future awaits the Congress Party, not our Nation! — Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) July 21, 2017

However, thank you @officeofRG for all that you do. Sincerely from the BJP!🙏🙏

— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) July 21, 2017

Rahul Gandhi had on Friday warned the ruling NDA government against distorting the Constitution and implementing the agenda of the RSS while speaking at an international conference in Bengaluru. Later in the day, in a series of tweets, he launched an attack on the Centre, accusing it of strangulating the reality.

Hitler,once wrote: Keep a firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time This is what is happening today-strangulation of reality — Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) July 21, 2017

BJP wants to paint a lie over India so that they can return it to an age of kings and no questions, where people were humiliated by power

— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) July 21, 2017

The emperor is completely naked but nobody around him has the courage to tell him. — Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) July 21, 2017

Where people's voices were crushed, where the poor and weak were trampled upon. Where millions of Indians were untouchables

— Office of RG (@OfficeOfRG) July 21, 2017

Gandhi also lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation, alleging that thousands of businesses were wiped out due to note ban and hundreds of people died, "but instead of speaking to the Parliament, Modi spoke to Coldplay."

Inaugurating an international conference in Bengaluru on "Quest for Equity: Reclaiming Social Justice, Re-visiting Ambedkar", Gandhi on Friday had said, "The aim of the union government is to distort the Constitution, which was drafted by B.R. Ambedkar, and implement the RSS agenda. We should go by what Ambedkar had exhorted us to do - educate, organise and agitate."

With inputs from IANS