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BJP mocked Rahul's visit to a bank for exchanging currency notes as a "photo opportunity"
BJP mocked Rahul Gandhi's visit to a bank for exchanging currency notes as a "photo opportunity" and said it only underlined the demonetisation move's success as "privileged dynasties" will now have to queue up and follow the law. Taking a swipe at the Congress Vice President, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said had he queued up in the Congress party and allowed the fittest to rule, then his party would have been better off. "Those born into dynasties lived under the impression that they were born to rule. They never stood in a queue. Succession to positions of power was a birth right. Rahul Gandhi never stood in a queue to become the leader of his party. "He superseded men of greater experience and competence merely because dynasties do not queue up. That is the feudal order. Only if he had queued up within the Congress party and the fittest had survived, the party would have been better off," he said in a statement.
Attacking Gandhi over his visit to the bank, Javadekar said he wanted to create a scene by standing in a queue. "He thought it was a great photo opportunity. He visited the bank perhaps for the first time. The irony is that, on the contrary, his photo opportunity turned out to be a success of PM (Narendra) Modi's scheme. Even those in privileged dynasties will now have to queue up and face the law. The age of privileges for a few is over now," he said.
Modi's decision to replace high denomination currency in order to get rid of black money and corruption will benefit the honesty people, he said, adding those with unexplained cash are in trouble.
Gandhi took many by surprise when he visited SBI's Parliament Street branch to exchange demonetised currency notes with new ones, and hit out at Modi saying the Prime Minister would not understand the problems people were facing due to the Centre's move.
Taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi's 'theatrics' for standing in queue outside a bank to exchange currency notes, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday said the Congress vice-president can only be seen on roads taking selfies with people. 'He is deliberately doing this to rile up people's sentiments. Congress and Rahul Ghandi have never cared about people. All he cares about is taking photos. That is why Rahul Gandhi is often seen on roads clicking selfies,' BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma told ANI.
Rahul Gandhi slams PM Modi
Continuing his barbs against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for running a 'suit-boot ki sarkar', Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday took an opportunity to pull-up the ruling dispensation over the currency ban issue and said that not a single 'suit-boot' person is standing in line and only 'aam aadmi' (normal people) have been languishing to exchange the currency notes.
Rahul, who arrived in Parliament Street to stand in-line with the people, waited for his turn to withdraw money from the bank.
He accused the Prime Minister of being apathetic to the people's woes who have been standing in serpentine queues since morning. 'I am here to stand with them, my people are suffering. Are you seeing any 'suit-boot' person standing in line, these are just ordinary people, but Prime Minister Modi remains indifferent to the plight of people,' Rahul told reporters here.
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