Doddaballapur Sep 11: Expressing her shock over former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s ‘War Against Indian State’ statement, firebrand BJP leader and Union Minister Smirit Irani on Saturday said the people of the country would make him ‘bite the dust for this’.
“When we were in the opposition, we never had once left the slogan of “Bharat Mata Ki Jai ‘ and never raised a single voice mentioning “Bharat Tere Tukde Honge’. But Yediyurappa ji, I am shocked. Yesterday, Rahul Gandhi told publicly that he was fighting a political party earlier, but now he is fighting the Indian state,” she said, addressing the Janaspandana rally at Doddaballapur here.
Continuing further, Irani said, “I want to ask the Gandhi family. Power comes and goes. Indira Gandhi also lost power, but she did not wage a fight against the state. Today, your son has declared war against India. Rahul Gandhi should better listen up that until the last breath of each Indian, India will not break. And the war you have waged against India, we all together will make you bite the dust.”
Irani was reacting to Rahul Gandhi’s statement given in a press conference yesterday during the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Tamil Nadu. The Gandhi scion had said, “As I have said, the BJP has taken control of all the institutions of this country. They have inserted most of their people in most of the institutions. They pressurize through these institutions. You know the role of the CBI, the ED, of the Income Tax Department. You know how they deal with these things. So, we are not fighting a political party. We used to fight a political party. Now the fight is between the structure of the Indian state and the opposition.”
