Mayawati hits out at PM over Rafale

LUCKNOW: Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a series of tweets on Monday, BSP chief Mayawati said “the country will have to decide what to do with the chowkidar and his so called honesty.”

Citing a report published in an English daily, she alleged that the government waived the anticorruption clause in the Rafale deal. “Corruption and corrupt defence deal, No problem! Chowkidar is important for the BJP/RSS, not his honesty,” tweeted the BSP chief.

“Corruption, honesty, national interest and national security etc. Everything can be compromised and ignored for the sake of chowkidar. The chowkidar is moving everywhere in the country on government expenses claiming he is honest and not corrupt,” she tweeted.

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Corruption, honesty, national interest and national security etc. Everything can be compromised and ignored for the sake of chowkidar. MAYAWATI, BSP chief in a tweet

Maya’s tweets came on the day Congress president Rahul Gandhi held a roadshow along with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Jyotiraditya Scindia in the state capital.

Interestingly, Rahul and Priyanka also put up a photo of the Rafale fighter jets during the roadshow.

Throughout the roadshow, the cadres kept raising ‘chowkidar chor hai’ (the watchman is corrupt) slogans to target Prime Minister Modi over the Rafale deal.