Panaji : BJP MP Tejasvi Surya claimed that Rahul Gandhi is roaming in Goa as if it was a trip to Thailand and was not taking in tourists due to the COVID-19 pandemic, state Congress chief Girish Chodankar on Sunday called Mr Surya’s thinking as “gutter level.”
“In an attempt to make @DrPramodPSawant feel CM of Thailand, @BJP4India MP @Tejasvi_Surya with his gutter level thinking has compared Goa to #Thailand thereby insulting the women and people who have kept respect of the state high. We strongly condemn this character assassination of #Goa,” Mr Chodankar tweeted.
In an attempt to make @DrPramodPSawant feel CM of Thailand, @BJP4India MP @Tejasvi_Surya with his gutter level thinking has compared Goa to #Thailand thereby insulting d women & people who have kept respect of d State high.We strongly condemn this character assassination of #Goa
— Girish Chodankar (@girishgoa) October 31, 2021
Goa Congress chief Girish Chodankar said that by comparing Goa to Thailand, Surya has insulted the women and people of the coastal state.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday, Mr Surya had said Mr Gandhi was vacationing in Goa as part of “political tourism” because Thailand was closed to tourists for the past one-and-half years due to the pandemic.
The Congress leader’s attack has come a day after Tejasvi Surya, during a press conference in Goa, said Rahul Gandhi was vacationing here as part of “political tourism” because Thailand was closed to tourists for the past one-and-half years due to the pandemic.
The political temperature is on the rise in Goa as Assembly elections are fast approaching in the coastal state. Goa is expected to see a four-cornered contest among BJP, Congress, Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party.
Rahul Gandhi was in Goa recently campaigning for Congress. TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also visited the state where her party will contest its maiden polls in February.
TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee slammed Congress for making ‘Prime Minister Narendra Modi’ more powerful. She said that, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is only going to be “more powerful” because the Congress is not serious about politics. She also accused the principal opposition party at the national level of not taking decisions, adding that the country is suffering because of that.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will be visiting Goa on Monday.
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