BJP chief Rajnath Singh is angry with Congress president Sonia Gandhi for calling his party "peddlers of death".
BANASKATA: BJP chief Rajnath Singh is angry with Congress president Sonia Gandhi for calling his party "peddlers of death".
Rajnath is the first BJP leader of stature to have come to Gujarat for campaigning and he immediately trained his guns at the Congress. His style, though, is far removed from the shrill rhetoric of chief minister Narendra Modi. The tone of his criticism is sober.
Rajnath told a moderate but responsive audience in the border area of India and Pakistan: "See, there is a difference between the Congress president and our Narendra Modi. You are aware of what Sonia Gandhi said, but Modi has been modest in his reaction. In all his speeches, he refers to the Congress president as Sonia Behn (Sonia my sister). That's the way he is treating a person who accused him of being a "merchant of death". The Congress president is a leader of stature. She has to choose her words carefully. Even if a leader intends to make a baseless allegation against a political adversary, restraint must be applied. Use of abusive words can never be approved of."
"The developmental work done by Modi in Gujarat has been widely appreciated. Even Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, whose chairperson is Sonia, has declared Gujarat as the number 1 state in terms of development. It is ironical that Sonia Gandhi is using this kind of language for the state that she herself declared as model."
Clearly, Modi has changed idioms, phraseology and the tenor of public discourses in Gujarat that even his own party leaders cannot match. Modi, of course is a big draw. But in Thakur/Durbar-dominated Banaskata, Rajnath drew repeated cheers from the audience.
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