Srinagar: Coming out in support of Congress Vice President against the brazen attack of BJP, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said the ruling party in the centre can’t claim that Rahul Gandhi is irrelevant if they feel the need to field senior Cabinet Ministers to counter what he says in Berkeley.
Gandhi, who is on a two-week tour to US, Tuesday addressed to students at University of California’s Berkeley.
“The BJP can’t claim Rahul is irrelevant if they feel the need to field senior Cabinet Ministers to counter what he said in Berkeley,” Abdullah, who is the working president of National Conference (NC), wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
“Ma’am he obviously hasn’t failed sufficiently or it wouldn’t have been necessary for the Union I&B Minister to counter his “failures”,” he added.
Abdullah was responding to Union Minister Smriti Irani describing Gandhi as ‘a failed dynast, who chose to speak about his failed political journeys in the US’.
Meanwhile, in an apparent reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi getting Mahatma Gandhi’s name incorrectly, he said, “And all they have is that he got the number of Lok Sabha seats wrong. It’s not like he got Gandhi ji’s name right or anything like that.”
Modi during his campaigning for Lok Sabha elections in 2013 referred to Mahatma Gandhi as Mohanlal and not Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at a rally in Rajasthan.
Abdullah also took on BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra for his comment that Gandhi slammed India in the US.
“Sambit ji would you care to share exact quotes where Rahul “slams his own country”. It will be most helpful since some of us can’t find any,” he added.
