'Don't Be Nasty Towards Smriti Irani': Rahul Gandhi's Appeal On X
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Ms Irani lost from Amethi in this year's general elections after defeating Rahul Gandhi from the Congress bastion in 2019.
In a rare gesture, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has made an appeal on social media asking people to refrain from "being nasty" towards former Union Minister Smriti Irani, who had defeated him in Amethi with a margin of over 55,000 votes in 2019 and then lost to Gandhi family loyalist Kishori Lal Sharma - who was making his electoral debut - by over 1.6 lakh votes in this year's general elections. Winning and losing happen in life.I urge everyone to refrain from using derogatory language and being nasty towards Smt. Smriti Irani or any other leader for that matter.Humiliating and insulting people is a sign of weakness, not strength.
This was after she had taken a dig at the Gandhis, saying that "an ordinary BJP worker had sent the Gandhi family packing".
In a tweet on X on Friday, Mr Gandhi, who is now the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, wrote, "Winning and losing happen in life. I urge everyone to refrain from using derogatory language and being nasty towards Smt. Smriti Irani or any other leader for that matter."
