Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi fight with 'toffee, balloon'
Gujarat CM says Rahul has childish mentality and fails to debate serious issues
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-04-16 02:21 GMT
Pune/ Hingoli/ Patna: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s “toffee” comment on Tuesday triggered a war of words, with Narendra Modi who compared him to a child but. Mr Gandhi hit back by saying the Gujarat Chief Minister had given land at throwaway prices to industrialist Gautam Adani.
Addressing a rally in Hingoli, Mr Gandhi said that the Vajpayee-Advani partnership has been replaced by Modi-Adani in the BJP. He said that Mr Modi had given land equal to the size of Aurangabad district in Maharashtra to Adani just for Rs 300 crore at the rate of rupee one per square metre, the cost of a toffee. “Today there is rule of Adaniji in Gujarat. Earlier, there used to be Vajpayeeji-Advaniji partnership. Now there is Modiji and Adaniji partnership. And that is a toffee model.”
Replying to Rahul Gandhi’s jibe Mr Modi addressing rallies in Jharkhand and Bihar, said, “I hoped a serious debate between the BJP and the Congress on the issues facing the country. But I am disappointed. I don’t know why the Congress have brought to the fore a leader whose childish mindset is immersed in objects of childhood. This ‘balak mann’ (childish mindset) is unable to come out of balloon and toffee.”
Rahul Gandhi also accused the BJP of using the black money earned from the Gujarat model for Mr Modi’s poll campaign. Addressing a rally in Pune he also said, that Mahatma Gandhi’s ideology that Congress follows has always won against Nathuram Godse’s of dividing and killing using a pistol. The Congress vice-president also said, “Women’s security is our duty. But, in Gujarat the people are keeping surveillance on women.”