You talk lot, your actions don't match your words: Rahul attacks PM Modi
Bengaluru: The Congress president launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter for his party’s choice of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Karnataka.
He particularly targeted BJP’s chief ministerial candidate BS Yeddyurappa, the Reddy brothers and their associates.
The tweet, accompanied by a video that Rahul Gandhi says "plays like an episode of 'Karnataka's Most Wanted'", is seen as an effort to corner the BJP leadership that accuses Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of corruption.
"You talk a lot. Problem is, your actions don't match your words. Here's a primer on your candidate selection in Karnataka," Rahul Gandhi, said in his tweet minutes before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to land in Karnataka for another day of hectic campaign in the poll bound state.
The 80-second video took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence on criminal cases that the BJP's presumptive chief minister faces, election tickets to two Reddy brothers and six others perceived to be closed to them and other candidates facing criminal charges.
There was a post script.
"You can refer to a paper for answers," he taunted, a response to PM Modi challenging him to speak for 15 minutes on achievements of the Karnataka government without the help of notes.
Dear Modi ji,
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) May 5, 2018
You talk a lot. Problem is, your actions don’t match your words. Here's a primer on your candidate selection in Karnataka.
It plays like an episode of "Karnataka's Most Wanted". #AnswerMaadiModi pic.twitter.com/G97AjBQUgO
Rahul Gandhi's tweet is part of the Congress strategy to build its offensive against the BJP around the Reddy brothers.
The former mining barons represent a chunk of corruption allegations levied against BJP during their earlier government led by BS Yeddyurappa.
The Reddy brothers – MLAs and ministers during the earlier BJP government in Karnataka -- have been accused of conducting large scale illegal mining across the iron-ore-rich district of Bellary.
Two of them - G Somashekhara Reddy and G Karunakara Reddy - have been given party tickets.
Over the past week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was seen sharing stage with Somashekhara Reddy in Bellary who was earlier accused of bribing a judge in the cash-for bail case that involved their third brother Janardhan Reddy.
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Campaigning in Karnataka this week, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who had called GST Gabbar Singh Tax, said: "The BJP is playing 'Sholay' movie in Karnataka with a 'Gabbar Singh' gang featuring the scam-tainted jailbirds of his party as Kalia and Samba.”
