Akbar said the Congress should have kept the pious relationship of the PM has with his mother out of politics. "It is in contrast to the Congress where a mother has ruined the party trying to protect an inept son," he said.
The Congress and the BJP on Monday traded barbs over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother-daughter-damaad (son-in-law) remark in the United States in an oblique reference to corruption taint on Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra without taking names.
In a no-holds-barred attack, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma accused Modi of insulting the nation by describing leaders in power before him as corrupt. Referring to the prime minister getting emotional and breaking down while recalling events about his mother, he said, "True to his characteristic style, the prime minister once again engaged in theatrics, emotion and drama, making boastful claims." Sharma raised questions about Modi's statements that he sold tea as a child and that his mother became a housemaid to look after him. These claims about himself were "not correct", he said, adding in his childhood Modi used to manage the counter in his uncle's canteen.
BJP spokesperson MJ Akbar hit back at Sharma's comments on Modi's mother, pointing out that the first act of the PM after winning the elections was to touch his mother's picture "in contrast to the Congress, where a mother had ruined the party." Asserting that "the PM is devoted to his mother," he told a press conference here that the Congress has become "a voice of untruth, malice and utter frustration."
Akbar said the Congress should have kept the pious relationship of the PM has with his mother out of politics. "It is in contrast to the Congress where a mother has ruined the party trying to protect an inept son," he said.
Accusing PM Modi of misusing public office for his official foreign trips, Sharma demanded an independent inquiry into "hundreds and millions of dollars spent in organising such events." He said thousands of people from this country, including RSS workers, were sent months in advance to make preparations for such events."
He claimed some 4,300 of RSS workers are in the United States since July.
"The prime minister has not taken name of any party or person. Then why should Congress get disturbed? We are not able to understand. The prime minister, during his visits, has been explaining the situation, developments in India to the Indian diaspora. Nobody should have any objection over that," parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters in Hyderabad.
Sharma was virtually abusive in mounting a scathing attack on Modi for his dig at the Congress on the issue of corruption during the mega event at SAP Centre in San Jose, saying it was "disturbing to see a showman like PM Modi leading a great country like India."
Another BJP leader G V L Narasimha Rao said: "The Congress Party is basically jealous of the ever-rising popularity of the prime minister and they cannot digest the prime minister's popularity. He does not go on personal, unexplained, inexplicable visits that Congress leaders make all the time. The first family of the Congress is most of the time abroad. They have never disclosed to this country what they do abroad."
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