Gujarat BJP defends Modi, slams Rahul

Criticising Rahul Gandhi for his "chowkidar" (watchman) remarks about Narendra Modi at Balasinor today, Gujarat BJP said what the Congress had done to stop corruption when it was in power for so many years.
"Rahul's father Rajiv Gandhi once admitted that one rupee sent by the Centre becomes 15 paise before it reaches the poor. To stop such a practice, our chief minister Narendra Modi became a 'chowkidar' of the state treasury and stopped the Congress from accessing it since the last 12 years," Gujarat BJP spokesperson Vijay Rupani said in a statement.
Rupani also labelled the present Congress as a 'videshi' (foreign) Congress.

"They dumped the Gandhi-Sardar Patel ideology long ago and are interested only in acquiring power through vote bank politics. If they had walked the path shown by Gandhiji and Sardar Patel, the country might have been in better shape today," Rupani said.
He also objected against Rahul's allegation of malnutrition among children in Gujarat.
"What the the Congress do to eradicate the problem of malnutrition? What happened to the committee set up by the central government to address that issue? At least Modi introduced the Bal-Bhog scheme and brought down malnutrition ratio among children to 39 per cent, which was 73 per cent in 2007," Rupani said.