TIL Desk/National/New Delhi-Calling him ‘arhar Modi, arhar Modi”, Rahul Gandhi today took swipes at Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha and tore into his election promise of bringing down prices. He also needled Modi on his election slogan asking people to make him a “chowkhidar” (watchman) and not PM and said under his nose but there was “theft” of pulses and he was not speaking a word on it.
In a speech that lasted just a little over 15 minutes, Gandhi asked the prime minister to give a date4e by which the prices of pulses will come down. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who took the floor after Gandhi to make a brief intervention in the debate on the price situation in the country, hit back saying the government had inherited double-digit inflation from the UPA government which was hit by scams and policy paralysis.
