Rahul Gandhi tweets photos of PM Modi in Corbett, calls him Prime Time Minister. BJP hits back
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi tweeted four photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jim Corbett Park on the day of the Pulwama attack.
In Short
- Rahul Gandhi said PM Modi was doing a photoshoot when nation was mourning
- Was commenting on PM Modi's whereabouts on day of Pulwama attack
- BJP said Rahul Gandhi was misleading the nation
Congress president Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter to post photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Jim Corbett national park on February 14, the day of the deadly Pulwama attack, in which 40 CRPF soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.
Adding to the controversy surrounding PM Modi's whereabouts after the Pulwama attack, Rahul Gandhi tweeted four photographs of the prime minister in Jim Corbett Park. Accompanying the photographs, Rahul Gandhi wrote, "Three hours after the martyrdom of 40 soldiers in Pulwama, 'prime time minister' was shooting for a movie."
The Bharatiya Janata Party, however, was quick to react to Rahul Gandhi's tweet, calling it "fake news".
Rahul Gandhi went on to say, "A river of mourning in the hearts of the nation and the homes of the martyrs and he [PM Modi] was laughing and getting a photoshoot done next to a river." This was a reference to photos that show the prime minister in a motorboat in the Jim Corbett national park.
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#PhotoShootSarkar pic.twitter.com/OMY7GezsZN Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) February 22, 2019
Prime Minister Modi was in Jim Corbett park to shoot a promotional film.
The BJP responded to Rahul Gandhi's claims, accusing him of trying to mislead the nation. The party tweeted from its account, that the photos posted by Rahul Gandhi were from the morning of February 14.
Rahul Ji, India is tired of your fake news. Stop sharing photos from that morning to shamelessly mislead the nation.
Maybe you knew in advance of the attack but people of India got to know in the evening.
Try a better stunt next time, where sacrifice of soldiers isn’t involved. https://t.co/qiAhUKrNdg BJP (@BJP4India) February 22, 2019
A row broke out over the issue on Thursday when the Congress cited media reports to allege that Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued shooting for a film in the national park for "self-propagation", and stayed there for some time after the Pulwama attack.
Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala, addressing a press conference, also claimed that the prime minister continued to "have tea and samosas at seven o'clock in a PWD guest house when every single Indian household didn't eat food (that day)".