The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday, 23 January, hit back at Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi over uneven distribution of wealth in India, saying it was the result of the Gandhi family's patented "poverty perpetuation" governance model.
Gandhi on Tuesday asked Modi to tell people in Davos why one percent of India's population had 73 percent of its wealth.
He also tagged a news report quoting an Oxfam survey that the richest 1 percent cornered 73 percent of wealth generated in India in 2017.
On Tuesday, Modi addressed the plenary session of the World Economic Forum at Davos.
BJP spokesperson GVL Narsimha Rao took to Twitter to criticise Rahul’s remarks saying that the inequality was the result of the Gandhi family’s poverty perpetuation model
He termed Gandhi's comment “a case of pot calling the kettle black.”
Rao said in the last three-and-a-half years, the Modi government has tirelessly worked towards inclusive growth, and taken a number of pro-poor initiatives such as Jan Dhan Yojana and Ujjawala Yojana.
While ‘garibi hatao’ (eradicate poverty) was merely a slogan for the Congress, for the BJP ‘sabka sath, sabka vikas’ (collective efforts, inclusive growth) is its model of governance, said Rao.
National executive member of the BJP Mahila Morcha, Priti Gandhi, also took to Twitter to slam Gandhi over his tweet. She said that while the Prime Minister was representing India on an international platform, Gadhi’s tweet was “shameful.”
She also went on to say that Rahul himself might be one of the 1% looting India’s wealth.
(With inputs from PTI)
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