New Delhi, May 7: Notwithstanding disapproval by top BJP leaders regarding his personal attacks on Sonia Gandhi, Gujarat Chief Minister Narender Modi today kept up his tirade against the Congress president, saying "no one would even rent out a house to her." "Even before renting out a house, one asks the background of the tenant. I ask Congressmen, does anyone know about the life of Sonia Gandhi before she married Rajiv," he said addressing his first election rally in Delhi.
"If one can`t even rent out a house to her, how can we hand over the reins of the country to Gandhi," he asked. In the backdrop of Modi`s statements earlier that Gandhi and her son Rahul would not get jobs even as clerks and drivers, senior BJP leaders, including Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and party president Venkaiah Naidu, had disapproved of them.
Modi described the Congress as a "burden on the country" and Gandhi as a "burden on the Congress." "Gandhi can`t even recite Vande Mataram without reading from a paper. She hasn`t been able to learn this much in five years as leader of the opposition," he said. "In this election, Congress is fighting the smallest number of parliamentary seats this time. In Bihar, it has got just four seats," he said Bureau Report