Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi today said that US president Barak Obama is praised when he speaks and writes in Hindi, but when he (Modi) says he would write a letter in Italian on the price rise issue, he gets brickbats.
Modi said this during a speech at a garib kalyan mela at Visnagar in Mehsana district in North Gujarat.
"When Barack Obama writes or speaks in Hindi, he gets showered with praises from all but when I say I will write in Italian on the price rise issue, I get brickbats," Modi said.
"I will write in any language in order to make them (Centre) understand my concern for price rise, under which poor people are reeling," the chief minister said.
Earlier, taking a dig at the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in a speech, Modi had said that he would write a letter in Italian to theCentre to divert their attention to price rise.
The statment apparently irked Congress leaders who termed Modi as someone who has lost his mental balance. In his speech Modi blamed Centre for food inflation.
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