Gandhi was referring to the comments made by PM during the virtual interaction, where he said that if wind turbines could collect moisture from air, besides producing power, it could help tackle drinking water shortage.
Two of the ministers in the union cabinet hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after his sarcastic tweet Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s views on wind turbines expressed a few days ago during an interaction with Henrik Andersen, head of Danish wind turbine maker Vestas.
Rahul Gandhi, earlier, had posted the video of the October 6 interaction with the Vestas President and CEO, and said, “The real danger to India isn’t that our PM doesn’t understand. It’s the fact that nobody around him has the guts to tell him.”
The real danger to India isn’t that our PM doesn’t understand.
It’s the fact that nobody around him has the guts to tell him. pic.twitter.com/ppUeBeGwpk
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 9, 2020
Gandhi was referring to the comments made by PM during the virtual interaction, where he said that if wind turbines could collect moisture from air, besides producing power, it could help tackle drinking water shortage.
“The other suggestion I have is that we can separate oxygen from the air using this same turbine…If this can be done, one wind turbine can then provide drinking water, oxygen, and energy…Can your scientists do something to innovate in that direction?” PM Modi asked.
In response, Mr Anderson invited him to Denmark where “you could be the idea developer for our research and development.”
Union Minister Smriti Irani took on Rahul Gandhi after he mocked PM’s remarks, calling Gandhi a “Yuvraj”. She said Gandhi as “ignorant” and “doesn’t understand”.
“They say ignorance is bliss, but rarely in Indian politics has an individual made a conscious effort to sustain his ignorance. It seems the real danger to the Congress flourishes unabashedly and no one seems to have the guts to tell the Yuvraj otherwise,” Smriti Irani wrote on Twitter.
They say ignorance is bliss, but rarely in Indian politics has an individual made a conscious effort to sustain his ignorance. It seems the real danger to the Congress flourishes unabashedly and no one seems to have the guts to tell the Yuvraj otherwise. https://t.co/NmQHgkqX5M
— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) October 9, 2020
Union Minister Piyush Goyal, in his tweet, said Prime Minister’s ideas were endorsed by the world’s leading company, which the Congress leader “doesn’t understand”.
“Nobody around Rahul Gandhi has the guts to tell him that he doesn’t understand. He mocks PM @NarendraModi’s ideas when CEO of the world’s leading company endorses them,” Goyal said, attaching a 2012 report by CNN.
Nobody around Rahul Gandhi has the guts to tell him that he doesn’t understand. He mocks PM @NarendraModi’s ideas when CEO of the world’s leading company endorses themhttps://t.co/XR0bqv4wSd https://t.co/KnuymPTcut
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) October 9, 2020
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