Rahul Gandhi running mega shopping mall of hate: JP Nadda

Tribune News Service

Aditi Tandon

New Delhi, June 5

BJP president JP Nadda on Monday launched a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi saying the Congress leader has opened a “mega shopping mall of hate and cannot digest India’s glory.”

“Whenever India crosses new milestones, whenever the world looks up to India, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi starts getting troubles. He cannot digest India's glory. You praise global vaccines and put question marks on Indian vaccines. You raise questions on surgical strikes, you foment divisions in society and then say we are running Mohabbat ki dukaan. No, you have opened a mega shopping mall of hate,” Nadda said at the launch of a Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation publication on nine years of PM Narendra Modi led government here.

To stress his point, Nadda recalled Gandhi's support for JNU students who sloganeered in favour of Afzal Guru, sentenced to death for his role in the 2001 attack on Parliament of India.

Listing inflation and growth rates of major economies to take digs at Gandhi, currently visiting the US, Nadda said, "The growth rate of the country you (Rahul) are visiting is 1.4 pc. It is from this country that you say unsavoury things about India whose actual growth rate is 6.1 pc and projected growth rate is 7.2. What can I tell my illiterate Congress friends except that they should read and write better,” said the BJP chief adding that "under Modi, India has moved from vote bank politics to report card politics; dynasty to meritocracy and division to unification.”

Nadda added that India's rising global presence under the PM had ensured its dehyphenation from Pakistan.“No world leader now speaks of India and Pakistan in the same breath,” said the BJP chief, adding that in the erstwhile Congress led UPA regime (2004 to 2014), "no one knew who led the country, the PMO or 10 Janpath."

Questioning the previous regimes, Nadda said under Modi, the political culture had changed.

"In the pre 2014 Congress era -- no one knew when a bomb blast would happen and where; when a terror strike would happen. Today India is safe and united. Had we ever thought Article 370 could be abrogated? But it was abrogated and complete unification of India was achieved," Nadda said, mentioning highlights of the Modi rule including the construction of Ram Temple.

Earlier today, Nadda met former Army chief Gen DS Suhag at the latter's residence as part of the BJP's mega outreach drive to connect with five lakh eminent families.

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