Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday said Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s ‘hawabaazi’ remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, indicated their own failures and their desire to hide it.
Speaking in favour of the Modi government, Irani said, “Sonia is forgetting is that the country gave Modi government a huge mandate in Lok Sabha.”
“She hit out at PM Modi to hide the short comings of her own party…it is laughable that the party that ruined the economy of this country is targeting the very person who is trying to revive it,” Irani added.
This comes after Sonia launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The party president, during a meeting of the Congress Working Committee, said that the Narendra Modi government is “out of touch” with the ground realities.
“The U-turn on Land Ordinance is evidence that government is out of touch with ground realities,” said Sonia. “Thanks to our party’s sustained campaign, the government has been compelled to withdraw its anti-farmer amendments,” she added.
This morning, at a top leadership meeting of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi accused PM Modi of “hawaa baazi (talking in the air)” and said he had failed abysmally to “match media events with actual accomplishments.”
“It has become painfully clear that most of the pledges made by the Prime Minister during his election campaign were nothing more than hawaa baazi,” Mrs Gandhi said.
“The Modi Government has failed abysmally to match words with deeds, to match media events with actual accomplishments. The economy is on a downward slide while prices continue on their unrelenting rise,” she added.
The PM, she said, had been reduced to “unedifying flip flops” which created confusion on what he really stood for.
It had earlier been speculated that Rahul Gandhi would take charge of the Congress, but the leaders say the 45-year-old is devoting his attention to rebuilding the party after its massive election defeat.
