Rahul Gandhi performs aarti at Narmada ghat; Smriti Irani takes a dig at Congress chief

Union minister for Girls and Little one Growth Smriti Irani on Friday took a potshot at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and posted his upside-down image on Twitter whereas performing aarti at Narmada Ghat in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh. Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had been in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa district on Friday the place they carried out ‘aarti’ on the Bramhapuri Ghat. Additionally they provided prayers on the well-known Omkareshwar Temple on a hillock by the river that homes one of many 12 ‘jyotirlingas’. 

Irani, who’s in Surat to handle the occasion’s ladies wing employees as a part of the marketing campaign for the Gujarat Meeting elections, tweeted Gandhi’s image the place he may be seen sporting an uttariya, a non secular scarf, with Om written on it in an upside-down method.   

Earlier within the day, the union minister focused Congress chief Rahul Gandhi over alleged shouting of the slogan `Pakistan Zindabad’ throughout his ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra. Gandhi blamed the BJP for tampering with a video of the Yatra by which somebody is purportedly heard shouting the slogan `Pakistan Zindabad’.  

Irani stated: “Pakistan Zindabad slogans had been shouted throughout Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. This isn’t the primary time somebody has insulted India in the course of the former Congress president’s Yatra. I need to ask Rahul Gandhi what number of extra such individuals you’ll take alongside in your caravan?”  

Irani vs Gandhi 

Irani has time to time criticised Rahul Gandhi’s management and insurance policies. Earlier this month whereas addressing a rally in Himachal Pradesh, Irani stated ever since she dispatched Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, he has been working across the nation attempting to attach the nation. 

Within the 2019 Common Elections, Irani defeated Gandhi in Amethi, a Congress stronghold for many years. She received by over 55,000 votes – delivering a large shock to the Congress because the occasion had by no means misplaced from Amethi. Throughout her latest go to to Amethi in November, the union minister stated: “The folks blessed Rahul Gandhi and the Gandhi household by electing them as public representatives from Amethi (beforehand). However, they gave nothing to the folks besides deceit and only one glimpse in 5 years,” she stated.

Bharat Jodo Yatra 

Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra is an ongoing mass motion the place Rahul Gandhi is attempting to mobilise the occasion cadre and most people. The Yatra is from Kanyakumari (the southern tip of the peninsula) to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (JK). It is going to cowl a distance of three,570 kilometres over 150 days. 

Priyanka Gandhi had for the primary time joined the Yatra this week. Her household additionally joined her for the aarti on the Narmada river.