The Asian Age

‘No prizes for guessing who was inspired by Hitler,’ Smriti taunts Rahul with Indira reference

- AGE CORRESPOND­ENT NEW DELHI, JULY 22

After Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Adolf Hitler and accused him of subjugatin­g various democratic institutio­ns in collusion with the RSS to “mutilate” the Constituti­on, Union minister Smriti Irani took to twitter to “thank” him “sincerely” for “all that you do.”

“@OfficeOfRG, a bleak future awaits the Congress Party, not our Nation!...However, thank you @officeofRG for all that you do. Sincerely from the BJP! ???? ,” tweeted the Union minister, who had unsuccessf­ully contested against Mr Gandhi from the Amethi constituen­cy in 2014.

In another tweet, Ms Irani wrote “@OfficeOfRG u r 42 yrs late on this 1. No prizes for guessing who was inspired by Hitler, imposed the emergency and trampled over democracy.”

Addressing an event in Karnataka on Friday, Mr Gandhi accused Mr Modi of seeking to subjugate various democratic institutio­ns of the country in

Addressing an event in Karnataka on Friday, Mr Gandhi accused PM Modi of seeking to subjugate various democratic institutio­ns

collusion with the RSS and the bureaucrac­y with an aim to “mutilate” the Constituti­on. Later, Mr Gandhi also tweeted, “Hitler, once wrote: Keep a firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time(.) This is what is happening today-strangulat­ion of reality.” In another tweet, he said that emperor “is completely naked” but nobody around him has the “courage” to tell him that.

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 ?? — PTI ?? Union textile minister Smriti Irani interacts with BJP MP Paresh Rawal during a seminar on GST in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
— PTI Union textile minister Smriti Irani interacts with BJP MP Paresh Rawal during a seminar on GST in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
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Rahul Gandhi

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