Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole on Thursday said that Mahatma Gandhi cannot be compared with anyone and took a jibe at the BJPโs โnew India.โ
Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole said that Mahatma Gandhi cannot be compared with anyone and took a jibe at the BJPโs โnew India.โ
โFather of the nation canโt be compared with anyone. Their (BJP) โnew Indiaโ is only about making a few friends super-rich while the rest of the population remains downtrodden and hungry. We donโt need this โnew India,โ Patole said. โIf they want to make Modi ji โFather of the Nationโ of new India just for few rich businessmen then let them make. I congratulate them for the same,โ Patole said.
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The Maharashtra Congress chiefโs remarks came after Amruta Fadnavis, the wife of the stateโs deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday termed prime minister Narendra Modi as โthe father of new Indiaโ after she was asked about a 2019 tweet in which she called him โthe father of our country.โ
โWe have two โrashtra pitaโ. Narendra Modi is the father of New India and Mahatma Gandhi is the father of the nation of earlier times,โ Amruta said during a programme in Nagpur where she was invited as the chief guest.
Senior Congress leader Pramod Tiwari also hit out at the remarks made by the wife of the stateโs deputy chief minister.
โThere can be two fathers in BJP but not in the country. Thereโll be only one Father of Nationโฆโ Tiwari said.
Mentioning that Amruta Fadnavis was the wife of five times Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, he said, โAmrita spoke what was present in the heart of the BJP. BJP and its organization are worshipers of Godse.โ
He alleged that the BJP and its organizations were filled with hatred for Gandhi and Congress.
โThis is not just an insult to Gandhi but to the entire nation. This theory was that of the BJP and not the nation,โ he told ANI.
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