DURG: Saroj Pandey, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Durg in Chhattisgarh, has called Congress president Rahul Gandhi “mentally weak”.
Pandey made the comments in response to Rahul Gandhi’s remark on American soft drink giant Coca-Cola’s founder.
Speaking to reporters, the BJP leader said, “The kind of things he (Rahul) says is surprising. He is definitely trying to learn but there is an age to learn. A person who learns after the age of 40 cannot be called learned. Such a person is called mand-buddhi (mentally weak).
She said this in response to Rahul Gandhi’s remark that the founder of the international aerated drink brand once used to sell ‘shikanji’ (lemonade).
Addressing the National OBC (Other Backward Classes) Convention of the Congress party at Talkatora Stadium in the national capital on June 11, Rahul said, “Do you know who was the founder of Coca-Cola? The founder used to sell shikanji.”
The Congress chief further claimed that the owner of popular American fast food company McDonald’s earlier used to run a ‘dhaba’ (roadside eatery). Rahul was citing the examples of successful American entrepreneurs to criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies.
Pandey calling Rahul Gandhi mentally weak has evoked a sharp response from the Congress party, which has demanded that the Durg MP to immediately withdraw her statement.
Source: Zee News