TIL Desk/National/Shillong/ Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday pooh-poohed Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s statement that he was ready to be the Prime Minister in case the Congress emerged as the single largest party after the 2019 general elections.
“I do politics in the area where Rahul Gandhi also does politics. In Amethi, he has lost every Assembly and local election in four years. How can a person not guaranteed to get re-elected in his own constituency have chances of returning to power in the country,” she told journalists in the Meghalaya capital.
“People in Amethi are not happy and he is talking of development in different parts of the country. It was during our tenure that Passport Office, Chief Medical Officer’s office and District Collector’s office in Amethi were inaugurated, while the Congress did nothing in its own bastion. How can he talk of development in the country?” the Bharatiya Janata Party leader added.
Noting that the earlier United Progressive Alliance government left behind a legacy of apathy, she said: “This is a 48-year-old legacy of apathy of one family versus 48 months of good governance under (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi,” Irani said.
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