New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi continued his tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called him ‘Prime Time Minister’. He stated Friday that said that when people were crying over the deaths in Pulwama, the Prime Minister was indulging ‘gleefully’ in a photoshoot.
“Three hours after the news of the killing of 40 soldiers in Pulwama, ‘Prime Time Minister’ continued shooting the film, Gandhi said. As the martyrs’ dear ones were going through a lot of pain in the heart, the PM was laughing at a photoshoot on a river,” the Congress chief tweeted in Hindi referring to the photoshoot on a lake.
The Congress for the second day Friday asked why he failed to mention the attack and its victims while addressing a rally in Rudrapur district of Uttarakhand just two hours later.
“We want to ask the Prime Minister what he was doing between 3.10pm (when the attack happened) and 5.10pm. At 4.40pm, he addressed a rally through mobile phone. To the best of our knowledge, not even once did he mention the attack,” said Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari at a press conference which preceded Rahul’s tweet.
“If he had condemned the Pulwama attack, he would have paid a tribute to the martyrs… none of that happened,” Tewari said, adding that Modi ‘deliberately’ chose not to mention the martyrs. “There can be no greater insensitivity than that,” asserted Tewari.
The Congress leader said there was an even ‘more frightening scenario’ than the Prime Minister merely failing to mention the attack in his speech.
“Was he unaware of the attack between 3.10pm and 5.30pm? He was either not informed about it by his office or he was incommunicado. That speaks a lot about the state of communication in the higher echelons of Indian state,” Tewari pointed out.
“If you (Modi) didn’t know that there was an attack, can there be a greater incompetence,” asserted Tewari.
IANS