New Delhi: BJP`s youth wing on Tuesday termed Rahul Gandhi`s remarks on natives of Uttar Pradesh as a "cruel joke" on them and said people of the state will avenge their insult in the coming Assembly elections. "Congress leaders have lost control over their language. They keep making controversial statements to divert people`s attention from issues like corruption, inflation and unemployment," Bharatiya Janta Yuva Morcha President Anurag Thakur said.
Addressing a rally while launching the party`s poll campaign in Phoolpur in Uttar Pradesh yesterday, Rahul Gandhi had asked the people of Uttar Pradesh to stop migrating to Maharashtra and "begging".
Inaugurating a hospital in Gurgaon near here, Thakur accused the UPA of failing on all fronts and being interested only in the well being of a chosen few.
Targeting Gandhi, he said, "People in Uttar Pradesh are busy earning their livelihood by doing hard work. Calling them beggars is a cruel joke and they will surely avenge it." On the proposed partial withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from Jammu and Kashmir, Thakur said, "Those who are opposing AFSPA are not concerned about the well being of people in the state. Credit goes to the Army for bringing peace there and it was possible only because of this Act."
Observing that removal of AFSPA from the state will encourage the separatists, Thakur said the BJYM will not tolerate any such move.
PTI