‘Grateful to voters of Amethi’: Congress firefights after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘north-south’ politics comment

Image Source : PTI/FILE PHOTO Senior Congress chief Anand Sharma has defended Rahul Gandhi over his ‘north south politics’ comment.
Facing a extreme assault from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi’s assertion evaluating politics of south India with north, the Congress on Wednesday seemed to be in a injury management mode.

Senior Congress chief Anand Sharma defended Rahul Gandhi describing the assertion as the previous social gathering president’s private expertise’. Sharma mentioned it was for Rahul Gandhi to make clear his comment.

“Rahul Gandhi had made observation, perhaps sharing his personal experiences…In what context he made that observation, he can clarify so that there’s no conjecture or misunderstanding,”  Anand Sharma mentioned.

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“After Independence there have been illustrious PMs – Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Atal Bihari Vajpayee – they all represented UP. Recently it was Dr Manmohan Singh from north India, so Congress has never disrespected a region,” he added. 

Referring to Union Minister Smriti Irani’s cost that Rahul Gandhi has been ungrateful to the folks of Amethi, the area which he represented thrice in Lok Sabha, Anand Sharma mentioned the Congress has at all times believed in a ‘united India’.

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“When it comes to Amethi, we’re grateful to voters and respect them. Amethi elected Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Capt Satish Sharma, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. No question of being disrespectful. It’s not the philosophy of Congress. We’ve believed in a united India,” he mentioned.

Another senior Congress chief Kapil Sibal rejected BJP’s cost that his social gathering was attempting to ‘divide and rule’.

“Laughable for BJP to say that we’re trying to divide country. It’s a Govt that divided people since it came to power. As far as Rahul Gandhi’s comments are concerned, I’m nobody to comment on what he said. He said it and he can explain in what context he said,” Sibal mentioned.

What Rahul Gandhi had mentioned

Addressing a public gathering in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday, the Wayanad MP had mentioned, “For the first 15 years, I was an MP in the north. I had got used to a different type of politics. For me, coming to Kerala was very refreshing as suddenly I found that people are interested in issues and not just superficially but going into detail in issues.”

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Labelling these feedback as anti-north Indians, a number of BJP leaders attacked Rahul Gandhi and alleged he was being an opportunist regardless of he and his relations having gained a number of elections from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.

Smriti Irani referred to as him “ungrateful” and mentioned the favored saying about such an individual is “one without much knowledge blabbers more”.

Irani defeated Gandhi in his household bastion Amethi throughout 2019 basic elections, however he gained from Wayanad in Kerala, the second Lok Sabha seat he had contested from.

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