In an apparent reference to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, BJP leader Arun Jaitley said that while senior Congress members stay in the background, others from the party try to counter Narendra Modi through "tweets and taunts".
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh is known to post tweets critical of Modi, the BJP prime ministerial candidate and the Gujarat Chief Minister.
He was speaking at a gathering of over 300-350 medicos at his residence here, where party leaders, including the BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate for Delhi, Harsh Varshan, appealed to doctors to become "political messengers for the party" for the coming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
Attacking the Prime Minister without taking his name, Jaitley said, "There is a leadership contest at the Centre. People are tired with the leaderless-ness. There is no point discussing how long one was Prime Minister. The point is what did you did while in power. Now, years won't be counted, but work will."
Rajnath Singh said that "one family ruled the country for 40 years" and was still not able to sort out the problems in India.
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