BJP's 'ungrateful' jibe at Rahul Gandhi

BJP on Tuesday hurled the “ungrateful” jibe at Rahul Gandhi after he appeared to suggest that people of north India had a superficial interest in issues.

“Divide and rule politics won’t work Rahul Gandhiji. People have rejected these politics. See what happened in Gujarat,” said Nadda.

Speaking at a rally in Kerala, Rahul said that his election to the Lok Sabha from the state had been a refreshing experience.

“For the first 15 years, I was an MP in the north. I had got used to a different type of politics. For me, coming to Kerala was very refreshing as suddenly I found that people are interested in issues and not just superficially but going into detail in issues,” the former Congress President said in Thiruvananthapuram.

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“Ungrateful! The world says about such people – ‘one who is not knowledgeable blabbers more,” Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, who defeated Rahul in the Lok Sabha elections in Amethi said.

Rahul had won the Lok Sabha poll from Wayanad in Kerala, the second seat he had contested, apprehending defeat in the family pocket borough of Amethi.

Nadda accused Rahul of “spewing venom against the western part of India” while speaking at a rally in the Northeast.

In Guwahati, Rahul had accused the BJP of dividing the people of Assam so that businessmen from Gujarat get the wealth from the state, including from tea gardens.