"Modern Day Jinnah": Assam Chief Minister Escalates Attack On Rahul Gandhi
NDTV
Mr Sarma said that Rahul Gandhi's language and rhetoric is similar to that of Mr Jinnah before 1947.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has escalated his attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by calling him a "modern-day Jinnah". Mr Sarma had yesterday hit out at Mr Gandhi for asking for proof of surgical strikes conducted by India in Pakistani territory. "Have we ever asked you if you are really Rajiv Gandhi's son or not?" he had said at a BJP poll rally in Uttarakhand. Now, while explaining his barb on the Congress leader, the Assam CM has compared Mr Gandhi to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
Mr Sarma said that Rahul Gandhi's language and rhetoric is similar to that of Mr Jinnah before 1947. "In a way, Rahul Gandhi is modern-day Jinnah," he added.
Congress, the main opposition party in Assam, had slammed Mr Sarma saying he had tarnished the image of the state by his crude remark. Congress party workers had staged a protest demonstration in Guwahati and burned Mr Sarma's effigy.
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