Ahmedabad: In a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi for his critical remarks on the upcoming Vibrant Gujarat Summit, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani dubbed the Congress president as a ‘shameless liar’ who was desperate to see the State fail.
Rupani said people of Gujarat have recognised Gandhi’s hatred for the state and have continuously rejected the Congress, and will keep doing so. Gandhi had yesterday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming that cynical sponsors of the investor summit no longer wanted to be associated with an event presided over by him.
“At the Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2019, cynical sponsors no longer want to associate themselves with an event presided over by NoMo. They have left the stage, the way he likes it. Empty,” he had said. The Congress chief had quoted a media report to target the summit, conceptualised in 2003 by Prime Minister Modi when he was the chief minister of the state to promote investment in Gujarat.
The report claimed that the United Kingdom, after refusing to be a partner country for the Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2019, said it had decided to withdraw from the ‘showpiece state-led event’ due to lack of satisfactory ‘commercial outcomes’. Reportedly, the UK is the second country after the United States to pull out as a partner country for the summit. Reacting to Gandhi’s tweet, Rupani yesterday night claimed that the investor meet was seeing even more participation this time.