TIL Desk/National/Ambikapur/ Returning the Congress’ “a chaiwala could become prime minister due to Nehru” barb, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday dared it to make someone “from outside the family” as its chief for him to believe the late leader created a true democratic system.
Modi also charged the Gandhis with still not being able to come to terms that a “son of a poor mother” could become the country’s prime minister. Addressing a campaign rally for the second phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, Modi slammed the opposition party for crediting his occupying the PM’s post to Nehru instead of people in the country.
He also hit back at the Congress also for questioning demonetisation, saying the move “still rankles” them as the money “stashed under beds and in sacks” was taken away in a single stroke. He asked Congress to give account of what the four generations of the (Gandhi) family did for the nation.
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had said it was due to the institutional structure created by Nehru that even a “chai wala” (tea seller) could become India’s prime minister. His party colleague Mallikarjun Kharge had also said a “chaiwala” could become the prime minister as the Congress preserved democracy. “They (Congress leaders) are saying it was due to a great person, due to Pandit Nehru, that a chaiwala became the prime minister,” Modi said.
