‘Rahul trying to rip apart PM’s image’

The BJP on Tuesday launched a fresh attack on Rahul Gandhi, saying the Congress leader’s refusal to apologise to the OBC community for his “indecent” comments is yet another “manifestation” of the Gandhi family’s political arrogance. BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani alleged that Gandhi was trying to “rip” apart the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But he will not succeed as the people of the country are with the prime minister, she asserted at a press conference. On the Congress raising questions over Gandhi being served a notice to vacate his official bungalow, she said the property does not belong to him, but the people. Gandhi has been served the notice to vacate the bungalow by April 22 following his disqualification as a member of Lok Sabha after his conviction and sentencing in a criminal defamation case last week over his “Modi surname” remark. “In an interview to a magazine in 2019, Gandhi in his own words had claimed that Modi’s greatest strength is his image and that he will rip his image apart,” the minister of women and child development said.