The BJP had been questioning the Congress chief over his temple visits during elections and even asked what his ‘gotra’ was.
The raging debate on Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s ‘gotra’ is showing no signs of abating. On Tuesday, CM Vasundhara Raje also joined the issue when she said the ‘gotra’ mentioned by Rahul Gandhi while offering a puja was that of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and not of his (Rahul’s) father or grandfather. “Those who used to mock us for visiting temples have started visiting temples themselves. In greed of votes they (Rahul) have started revealing even their ‘gotra’,” Raje said. A priest, who presided over the puja offered by Rahul during his visit to the Pushkar lake in Ajmer district on Monday, had claimed that the Congress chief’s ‘gotra’ was ‘Dattatreya’ and he is a Kashmiri Brahmin.
The BJP had been questioning the Congress chief over his temple visits during elections and even asked what his ‘gotra’ was. Addressing a rally in Ajmer’s Nasirabad town, Raje said: “Rahul Gandhi did not mention his ‘gotra’, the ‘gotra’ mentioned was that of Nehruji. He should have mentioned the ‘gotra’ of his father (Rajiv Gandhi) and grandfather (Feroze Gandhi).” Raje also accused former chief minister Ashok Gehlot on insulting women. “Gehlot’s remark (on her) is not only my insult, but the insult of all women,” she said. Gehlot had recently said Raje greeted BJP chief Amit Shah by bowing before him.
Accused of wearing a religious cloak for political gains by BJP leaders who even questioned his knowledge about his gotra (family tree), Congress president Rahul Gandhi came clean on it on Monday. Offering prayers at the Brahma temple and Pushkar ghat in poll-bound Rajasthan, Gandhi said he belongs to the ‘Dattatreya’ gotra. “When I asked him his gotra, Rahul instantly mentioned ‘Kaul Datttreya’,” said Rajnath Kaul, priest who performed Jal-Rupi Brahma prayer at Pushkar’s Savitri Ghat in Ajmer district.
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On Tuesday, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje too also joined the issue when she said the ‘gotra’ mentioned by Rahul Gandhi while offering a puja was that of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and not of the Congress president.
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