My nani had to leave Pakistan, refuse to accept INC as 'First Family of India': Payal Rohatgi slams PC Chacko
"Prime Minister Modi has kind of negative opinion for the first family of India, the first family of India is truly the first family of India. India is obliged to them...," Chacko said. "The Prime Minister was speaking about India's adventure in space. The fact is, India is India today because of the planning and leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru," he said.
Congress leader PC Chacko, while referring to the Gandhi family as India's "first family", opined that the country is obliged to them.
Speaking to ANI, Chacko on Saturday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a negative opinion regarding India's first family.
"Prime Minister Modi has kind of negative opinion for the first family of India, the first family of India is truly the first family of India. India is obliged to them...," Chacko said. "The Prime Minister was speaking about India's adventure in space. The fact is, India is India today because of the planning and leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru," he said.
Reacting, actor Payal Rohatgi wrote: “I, Indian Citizen whose family history dates back to the fact that my #Nani had to run from Jhelum in Pakistan due to #Partition1947 with her family leaving her family house, heirlooms everything & start life from scratch #refuse to accept the @INCIndia as First Family of India.”
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar Saturday hit out at Congress leader P C Chacko for describing Gandhi family as the first family of the country.
He said the Gandhi family had no familiarity with the family of Mahatma Gandhi and Chacko's statement reflects nothing but sycophancy culture prevailing in the Congress.
"PC Chacko described Gandhi family as the first family of the country .This is the Congress' mindset and culture of sycophancy which resembles Devkant Barooah who used to say during emergency Indira is India, India is Indira," Javadekar said at a press conference in New Delhi.
"For the BJP, poor family is the first family of the country and not any dynasty. Dynasty is Congress' culture," said Javadekar, who is also BJP's state election in-charge.
Meanwhile, state BJP leaders presented a chargesheet against the Congress government for not fulfilling promises after 100 days of forming the government in New Delhi.
"Promises made by the state government before assembly elections have proved (to be) lies. Be it farm loan waiver, unemployment allowance, Congress has not fulfilled any of them even after 100 days," former state minister Rajendra Rathore told reporters.
Former state BJP president Arun Chaturvedi said financial mismanagement, power and water cuts were the realities of the Congress government.
Chacko also claimed that Prime Minister Modi is not aware of India's history. "When India became free, what was the situation? (Narendra) Modi doesn't know history. India was made self-sufficient through the green revolution, white revolution. Everything happened during Pandit Ji's time (Nehru). Pandit Ji's contribution and (Gandhi) family's contribution cannot be erased."
The Congress leader also asserted that his party's president Rahul Gandhi will become the next Prime Minister of India.
"Mr Narendra Modi will see that," he added