DODA (J-K): Rahul Gandhi today raked up the issue of Narendra Modi’s marriage to attack BJP, saying while the party made claims of ensuring safety of women, it took several elections for its Prime Ministerial candidate to mention the name of his wife in the poll affidavit.
“Don’t know how many elections he has contested till now, but he has revealed for the first time that he is married. In Delhi, he talks about honor of women, but his own wife’s name doesn’t reach the affidavit,” he said while addressing a gathering here.
Modi has for the first time declared himself as a married man by revealing his wife’s name as Jashodaben in an affidavit filed before the Election Commission along with his nomination papers for Vadodara Lok Sabha seat.
In previous elections, Modi used to leave the column of spouse blank in the affidavit. He had kept the column as blank in the 2012 Assembly elections as well.
Targeting BJP, Rahul said the party’s ministers in Karnataka watched videos while in the state assembly.
“What kind of videos, you would have read in the newspapers,” Gandhi said, apparently referring to an episode during BJP’s tenure in Karnataka when ministers were caught on TV allegedly watching porn clips in the state assembly.
Hitting out at the BJP, Gandhi also claimed that he had gone to Chhattisgarh where he had been told that 20,000 women were missing. “They don’t know where they went, they are missing,” he said.
Raman Singh-led BJP government is in power in Chhattisgarh.
Targeting Modi over the issue of alleged spying of a woman in Gujarat, Rahul said, “The Chief Minister’s office, police set up was engaged in tapping of the phone of a woman – entire Gujarat Police was stalking her…The Chief Minister wanted to know what was happening around her”.
“If these examples are anything to reveal the true face of BJP, then what about the claim of BJP about women empowerment across the country”, he said.
Rahul, who was flanked by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and state Congress Chief Saif-ud-Din Soz, said, “It is a battle between two ideologies as we go to elections. On one side it is National Conference and Congress and on the other it is BJP”.
He said the country can only be taken towards peace, progress and prosperity through unity of the country, but the BJP is engaged in “divisive politics as they are throwing people out of various states as is in the case of Sikhs of Gujarat, who had lived there for decades”.
Gandhi recalled that BJP had launched a much hyped India Shining Campaign but it ended up “badly”.
He also accused BJP of lifting content from Congress’ manifesto.–PTI
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