 "Modi plays caste card to counter Priyanka")
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate on Tuesday played the backward caste card while launching a counter attack on Priyanka Gandhi who had accused him of indulging in degenerative politics.
In a series of Tweets on his official Tweeter account Modi said, “Because I belong to backward community they (Congress) consider my politics ‘neech rajneethi’ (denigrative politics).”
He further said that some people (Congress) do not realise that it is because of the hard work and sacrifice of people of backward community, that India has reached this heights. “People of backward community have an import role in nation’s progress,” Modi added.
The senior BJP leader had on May 5 taken on the Gandhi family on their home turf Amethi, from where Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is contesting Lok Sabha elections. Modi had termed Priyanka Gandhi as “arrogant” for asking who Smriti Irani (actress-turned politician and BJP candidate from Amethi) was.
In reply to Priyanka’s barb that Modi practiced ‘politics of anger’, Modi had yesterday accused her father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, her mother Sonia and brother Rahul for practicing the same. Priyanka, within hours, hit out at Modi saying he had insulted her martyr father on Amethi’s soil and accused Modi of indulging in ‘neech rajneeti’ (degenerative politics).
During the election rally in Amethi to support BJP candidate Smriti Irani, Modi had on Monday accused Congress of practicing politics of “arrogance” and claimed that Rajiv Gandhi, when he was Congress General Secretary, had once publicly “abused” and “humiliated” the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister T Anjaiah at airport.
In a series of Tweets on his official Tweeter account Modi said, “Because I belong to backward community they (Congress) consider my politics ‘neech rajneethi’ (denigrative politics).”
He further said that some people (Congress) do not realise that it is because of the hard work and sacrifice of people of backward community, that India has reached this heights. “People of backward community have an import role in nation’s progress,” Modi added.
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The Gujarat chief minister added that his kind of politics, which the Congress termed as ‘neech rajneeti’ had the potential to free the nation of 60 years of misrule and vote bank politics. “This ‘neech rajneeti’ (of Modi) has the strength to make this country one of the most power and prosperous nation in the world order,” Modi Tweeted.
The senior BJP leader had on May 5 taken on the Gandhi family on their home turf Amethi, from where Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is contesting Lok Sabha elections. Modi had termed Priyanka Gandhi as “arrogant” for asking who Smriti Irani (actress-turned politician and BJP candidate from Amethi) was.
In reply to Priyanka’s barb that Modi practiced ‘politics of anger’, Modi had yesterday accused her father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, her mother Sonia and brother Rahul for practicing the same. Priyanka, within hours, hit out at Modi saying he had insulted her martyr father on Amethi’s soil and accused Modi of indulging in ‘neech rajneeti’ (degenerative politics).
During the election rally in Amethi to support BJP candidate Smriti Irani, Modi had on Monday accused Congress of practicing politics of “arrogance” and claimed that Rajiv Gandhi, when he was Congress General Secretary, had once publicly “abused” and “humiliated” the then Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister T Anjaiah at airport.
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