Arun Jaitley slams Salman Khurshid's jibe at PM Modi’s crowd
Mr Khurshid had questioned the genuineness of crowd during PM Modi's Burma trip
New Delhi: Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Monday attacked Congress leader Salman Khurshid for questioning the genuineness of crowds during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trips abroad. The minister said Mr Khurshid’s plight was understandable as Mr Modi had a larger audience in Sydney than his leader got in India.
“If UPA leaders during their days in government left the expatriate Indian population underwhelmed, is it to be presumed that this should be true for others?” he asked.
“I can understand the plight of Salman and his party colleagues particularly when PM Modi gets a larger crowd in Sydney than what Salman’s leaders get in India,” the BJP leader said soon after Mr Modi addressed a large diaspora gathering in Sydney.
Mr Khurshid had expressed doubts over the genuineness of the big gathering of the people of Indian origin who had turned up to meet the PM in Burma. “I have been to Nay Pyi Taw twice. No one is found on the streets there. Then how come 20,000 people came to listen to Mr Modi. He must have taken along many with him,” Mr Khurshid had said.