New Delhi: Congress on Saturday attacked BJP
president Nitin Gadkari for comparing Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi with Mahatma Gandhi, saying only a "political
lightweight" can make such a statement.
"When Gadkari became BJP president, the people of the
country felt that an immature person has been given the post.
With such a statement, he has proven correct the observations
of the people that he is a political lightweight," party
spokesman Shakeel Ahmed told reporters here.
Calling Gadkari a "political pygmy", Ahmed said that this
was what the people of the country would think of the BJP
chief who has compared the father of the nation with Modi.
On his first visit to Gujarat as BJP president, Gadkari
drew parallels between Gandhi and Narendra Modi, saying both
believed that politics was an instrument to alleviate poverty.
Meanwhile, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh attacked
Modi for his statement yesterday that he would write a letter
to the Centre on the issue of price rise in Italian language.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who is Italy-born, knew
"better Hindi" than Modi, he said, adding the Gujarat Chief
Minister is making such "absurd statements" to bring himself
on the centrestage as he is feeling "left out" in his party.
"I strongly condemn Modi's statement. The cheap statement
which he has made does not dignify his post. Sonia Gandhi
understands both Hindi and English and there is no need for
him (Modi) to write in any other language."
PTI
First Published: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 19:36