Amethi: BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi cited the instance of former PM Rajiv Gandhi, then a Congress general secretary, publicly “abusing” and “humiliating” the then AP chief minister T. Anjaiah at the Begumpet airport to highlight arrogance in the Gandhi family.
He then raked up the unceremonious removal of Sitaram Kesri as the Congress President in 1998 as “Madam Sonia Gandhi” was angry against him and wanted to take over the reins of the party.
He also mentioned the treatment meted out by Mrs Gandhi to former PM P.V. Narasimha Rao, saying “when he passed away, he was treated like Bahadur Shah Zafar and denied even a small piece of land for his cremation in Delhi.”
While listing the examples of “anger” of Congress leaders, he referred to an incident last year when Rahul Gandhi publicly termed as “nonsense” a decision of the Union Cabinet on an Ordinance and said it should be “torn”. Mr said that by this act, Rahul had publicly “humiliated” the PM and the Union Cabinet.
