Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said he cannot reply to a "person who does not listen and does not sit in the House".
PM Modi was replying to the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address in Lok Sabha. "You keep complaining that I don't take the name of Nehru ji enough. Today I will only talk about Nehru ji. Enjoy," PM Modi said.
Taking a veiled dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, PM Modi said, "Your leader will also say 'maza aa gaya'."
Attacking the Congress for criticism over the Centre's economic policies, PM Modi went back to Nehru's address from Red Fort as the first prime minister of the country.
"Pandit Nehru said from the Red Fort that sometimes war in Korea can impact us and so price of commodities increase in India. The first PM of the country was helpless. Imagine then he was saying that the inflation problem was so serious. How the country's first prime minister threw up his hands in front of the country," PM Modi said.
PM Modi further said, "Pandit Nehru also said if something happens in America, it affects the price of our commodities. If you [Congress] were in power today, you would have blamed inflation on Covid pandemic and run away. The country is fortunate that you are not in power."
PM Modi also hit out at Rahul Gandhi's allegation that the government was favouring only a handful of industrialists.
"During the governments of Pandit Nehru and Indira Gandhi, people used to say Tata-Birla ki Sarkar. You are now speaking their tongue," PM Modi said.
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