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BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday hit out at Congress President Sonia Gandhi over her "empty vessels" barb directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying she has a "veil over her eyes" and cannot see or hear the cries of the poor who are being harassed by the Congress regime in Haryana.
"I do not know what your (Sonia Gandhi's) understanding is. But can you deny that atrocities are being perpetrated on women in Haryana and they are crying? Is it not true that farmers' land is being snatched away and they are crying? The youth are also crying as they are not getting employment opportunities. Is it not true? Soniaji, I know you cannot see the truth as there is a veil over your eyes," Shah said during a poll rally in Sonepat district of Haryana.
Countering Gandhi over her remarks on Saturday, Shah said people shouting loudly give a stronger suggestion of venting their anguish rather than establishing a falsehood.
"You (the Congress chief) cannot understand this pain as you don't visit villages, you were not born to the poor and do not visit Dalits. Our prime minister is son of the poor. He has reached where he is after selling tea and well understands the hardships of the poor in villages. Soniaji, God save you and your party if you find all this false," Shah said.
Gandhi had charged during a public meeting in Haryana that the prime minister was "showing off" as if everything has been done only after his government came to power, to which Shah reacted saying that it was difficult to undo the "ill-deeds" committed by Congress over the last 60 years.
Shah further averred that BJP had given the nation a prime minister who speaks.
He said the difference between the previous Congress-led UPA regime and the NDA government in its first 100 days was that, earlier Pakistan began and ended the shelling from across the border, but now it is India which silences the firing which is started by Pakistan.
"Pakistan cannot dare behead any Indian soldier now. That is the difference which the Modi government has made in its first 100 days," Shah said.
