2 Ministers, MP Lead Fight Back On Rahul Gandhi's Alleged Insult Of Hindus
NDTV
The three weren't the only BJP leaders to hit out at Rahul Gandhi; party boss JP Nadda and union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, and G Kishan Reddy also took aim.
The Bharatiya Janata Party - hit by a blistering broadside Monday afternoon from Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, in his first speech as Leader of the Opposition - deployed union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and Kiren Rijiju, and Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi to make a point-by-point rebuttal.
The trio accused Mr Gandhi of belittling his post and of making an "extremely irresponsible speech" that inflicted a "grave insult" on Hindus by linking them to violence and spreading falsehoods.
Ashwini Vaishnaw began a tag team-style counterattack this evening, claiming the nation had been left "distraught" by Rahul Gandhi's statement, and declared that Mr Gandhi had used the word 'violent' for Hindus. "It is highly condemnable... the entire nation is distraught," the Railways Minister said.
