Rahul continues charge of PM's photo shoot post Pulwama strike

Sticking to his charge that the Prime Minister continued his photo shoot after the Pulwama terror strike, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday said Narendra Modi should be "ashamed of himself" for not calling it off.

Three and a half hours, my friends, three and a half hours he made a movie of himself. Making a movie, smiling and laughing were more important to him than helping the families of those who died," he alleged at a public meeting in this temple town.

The charge first made by Gandhi in a tweet Thursday was vehemently denied by the BJP which called it a lie and slammed the Congress for indulging in "petty politics".

Gandhi also accused Modi of waiving Rs 3.5 lakh crore loans of powerful businessmen while not writing off the debts of poor farmers.

Sounding the poll bugle in the state, he said the Congress would accord special category status to Andhra Pradesh if it was voted to power in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Referring to the Pulwama blast, he said: When 40 of our CRPF jawans are martyred, when their blood is still flowing, the PM of India who calls himself a nationalist, is sitting in a national park, getting a movie made of himself."
Continuing his tirade, Gandhi said: "...They dont have enough feeling, enough respect that 40 of our boysmay be I should stop doing this and may be I should try to help them. The PM should be ashamed of his behaviour after our boys were killed."