Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Wednesday lashed out at Congress president Rahul Gandhi saying that he has shown his "insensitivity" by "lying" in the name of Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, who has been suffering from a pancreatic ailment.
"Dear Rahul Gandhi, you showed how insensitive you are, by lying in the name of a person fighting a disease. The people of India are disgusted by your reckless behaviour. In his trademark style, @manoharparrikar ji sets the record straight," the BJP president tweeted quoting Parrikar's letter to Gandhi.
The Congress president targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal claiming that Parrikar – the former Union defence minister – had stated during the meeting that "he has nothing to do with the new deal".
Following this, the Goa chief minister in his letter to the Congress president has clarified that there was no mention of Rafale issue in the courtesy with the Congress president. Rahul Gandhi had called on Manohar Parrikar at the state Assembly complex in Panaji on Wednesday.
"...you have said quoting me that I was nowhere in the process of procuring Rafale nor did I have any information then about it. I feel let down that you have used this visit for your petty political gains. In the 5 minutes you spent with me, neither did you mention anything about Rafale, now did we discuss anything related to it. Nothing whatsoever about Rafale was even mentioned in the meeting," the Goa Chief Minister wrote in his letter to the Congress president.
