Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday, 18 March, took a jibe at Prime Minister Modi and other BJP leaders for adding the prefix “chowkidar” on their Twitter handles and attacked the PM over the Rafale deal.
Mocking the prime minister's ‘main bhi chowkidar' (I am a watchman too) campaign, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Monday said Narendra Modi has turned the whole country into ‘chowkidars’ after getting caught.
While addressing a rally in Karnataka, Gandhi said that if everybody was a ‘chowkidar’, why did PM Modi go alone to France to finalise the Rafale deal.
Gandhi, who had been repeatedly taking the “chowkidar chor hai”(watchman is the thief) jibe at Modi to claim irregularities and favouritism in the Rafale fighter jet deal, said the prime minister never mentioned he would make the whole country ‘chowkidars’.
Addressing a public rally in Kalaburgi in north Karnataka, he said Modi had told the people to make him a ‘chowkidar’ and not prime minister, but was now turning the whole country into ‘chowkidars’.
“Whose chowkidari has he done?” the Congress president asked, alleging Modi had only helped Anil Ambani, Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi – a charge vehemently being denied by the BJP government.
Modi had on Saturday urged his supporters to take the 'main bhai chowkidar' (I too am watchman) pledge, saying he is not alone in the fight against graft and social evils.
He also posted a little-over-three-minute video to drive home his message.
The prime minister has often described himself as a ‘chowkidar’ who would neither allow corruption nor be corrupt himself.
Modi and other BJP leaders, including party president Amit Shah, prefixed the word ‘chowkidar’ to their names in their Twitter profile Sunday as they sought people's support in the Lok Sabha elections.
Gandhi also alleged that the target of Modi was to abolish the Constitution just as he scrapped the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes during the demonetisation exercise.
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