Shimla: Union Minister Smriti Irani on Monday took a dig at Congress’ ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ saying ever since she dispatched Rahul Gandhi from Amethi he has been running and going around the country. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had lost his bastion Amethi to Irani in the previous Lok Sabha polls, but won from the other seat – Wayanad in Kerala.
“But wherever he went, what was the situation there? Congress kept losing elections there,” Irani, the Minister for Women and Child Development, said addressing a poll rally for the Renukaji Vidhan Sabha for the November 12 Himachal Assembly polls.
She also questioned some of those joining the Yatra.
“Wherever he went and with whom. In Tamil Nadu, he took out Yatra with such a person who said in the presence of Congress people not to keep their feet on India’s soil lest they get dirty.
“I want to ask Congress’ shameless leaders that our brave martyrs have given their blood for this soil.
“Congress party leaders took out Yatra, with whom they took out this Yatra in Kerala? With those who slaughtered cows and then uploaded the photo on the internet. And Congress’ Yuvraj is patting their back taking out Yatra,” she said in a scathing attack.
They took out Yatra with those who put resolutions of separating Kashmir from India,” she said.
Irani asked Congress workers “when your leader supports those who want to see a disintegrated India, does your blood not boil, when your leader pats the back of cow slaughterers, does your blood not boil?”
This poll is not just of Renukaji or Himachal Pradesh, but between those who on one hand sacrifice everything for their nation and on the other, those who embarrass their country and support those who want to see a disintegrated India, she said.
