Last Update: January 10, 2023, 23:13 IST
He remains Pappu.
A day after Rahul Gandhi targeted the RSS, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday hit out at the Congress leader, saying he should join an RSS shakha for a few days as he does not know anything about the organisation. .
a day later Rahul Gandhi Hitting out at the RSS, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday hit out at the Congress leader, saying he should join an RSS shakha for a few days as he does not know anything about the organisation.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said even Congress leaders were surprised by Gandhi’s remarks.
Referring to the term, Khattar said, “He remains Pappu.”
Attacking the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Rahul Gandhi on Monday called its members “Kauravs of the 21st century”, during a street corner meeting in Ambala as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Vij hit out at Gandhi, saying he was talking about the poor but sleeping in the ‘Palace on Wheels’ during his travels.
The BJP leader said, “He has no right to comment on the RSS, about which he knows nothing.” “Today the country stands because of the RSS,” he said.
He said that Rahul Gandhi should visit RSS shakha for a few days to know about RSS.
Vij also took a jibe at Gandhi for saying that he decided to wear only a T-shirt during his foot march after meeting three poor girls in Madhya Pradesh.
“Rahul Gandhi should have at least visited the girls’ house to see how they live, where they sleep… He sleeps in a palace on wheels, which has all the luxuries and is part of the fleet of vehicles that accompany him. is,” the minister said, adding that Vij said lakhs of rupees were being spent on his visit and asked about the source of the money.
On Gandhi’s remarks, Khattar told reporters, “The kind of comments he makes, no one knows what philosophy he follows…” “Sometimes he becomes a Shiv Bakht (follower of Lord Shiva) And then ask who raises the slogan (Har Har Mahadev), he sometimes targets priests too. Can’t understand what is his direction… It’s not that we are the only ones who are surprised. Congress people are also surprised Huh.
The Chief Minister said, ‘Anyway he is Pappu.’
Gandhi on Monday alleged that RSS men never say ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Jai Siya Ram’ as they are against India’s values and ‘tapasya’.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which began on September 7 from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, will end on January 30 in Srinagar with the unfurling of the national flag by Gandhi.
It moved to Punjab on Tuesday after passing seven districts of Haryana in two phases, with the Haryana leg concluding in Ambala district.
The march has so far reached Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
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