IANS/New Delhi
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday termed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi “a baby in diapers”, following his remarks that people would reduce Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “56-inch chest to 5.6 inches”.
“He has to grow out of diapers he is wearing. His remarks, behaviour remind us that he remains a baby in diapers,” BJP spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh said here in a press conference.
On Gandhi’s remarks, Singh said, “The 56-inch chest he (Modi) has got, is not at your (Rahul’s) mercy. It is due to pride of the poor, farmers and labourers of the country.”
In Jaipur, the Congress vice president said: “People, especially the poor and the farmers, will turn the 56-inch chest into 5.6 inches in six months... You just watch.”
Earlier Modi took a dig at Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra, referring to the “embarrassment” that in-laws often face from sons-in-law in politics.
Speaking in Jammu at the birth centenary of late Congress leader Girdhari Lal Dogra, he said Dogra “must have been a great judge of human beings” as was apparent in his choosing a son-in-law like Arun Jaitley, now the union finance minister.
“In today’s politics, you otherwise see the embarrassment sons-in-law cause to their in-laws,” he said in an obvious dig at Vadra, whose land deals in Haryana are under the scanner.
Congress leader Salman Khurshid meanwhile said Modi’s foreign policy was a “failure” and his government was “incapable of strategic thinking”.
Talking to media persons, Khurshid, a former external affairs minister, also said that there had been over several hundred ceasefire violations in Jammu and Kashmir in one year of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government and a number of civilians had been killed besides soldiers laying down their lives.
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