The Congress on Wednesday laughed off BJP’s jibe over an alleged Rs 63,000 jacket worn by party president Rahul Gandhi during his visit to Shillong.
“I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry on the desperation of the BJP. Are you saying they have no other work than to sit and search rates? I can show you the same jacket for Rs 700. If the Prime Minister wants it I can get one and send it to him…” Congress’ Renuka Chowdhury told news agency ANI, responding to a tweet by the Meghalaya BJP that claims the jacket worn by Gandhi was a Burberry one costing $995, or roughly Rs 63,400.
So @OfficeOfRG , soot(pun intended!)-boot ki sarkar with ‘black’ money fleeced from Meghalayan State exchequer by rampant corruption? Instead of singing away our woes, you could have given a report card of your inefficient govt in Meghalaya! Your indifference mocks us! pic.twitter.com/sRvj5eoyRb
— BJP Meghalaya (@BJP4Meghalaya)January 30, 2018
The BJP’s potshot comes in retaliation to Gandhi’s “suit boot” jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a poll campaign in Bihar in 2015.
“While the Mahatma shed his suit and donned a dhoti as he led the poor farmers, Modi who claimed to have started as a chaiwala (tea seller) started wearing Rs 15 lakh suit after becoming Prime Minister,” Gandhi had said at a rally in West Champaran.
The suit referred to by Gandhi in his poll speech is a monogrammed suit donned by Modi during his 2015 meeting with then US President Barack Obama in India. The suit, which was sold at an auction for Rs 4.31 crore, has stripes with the name Narendra Damodardas Modi woven into it in glittering gold letters.
The pinstripe suit worn by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his meeting with former US president Barack Obama. (HT File)
Gandhi, who is on a campaign tour of Meghalaya that goes to polls on February 27, was seen wearing the jacket on Tuesday at a musical evening “Celebration of Peace”.
Source: HindustanTimes