NV Subhash, leader of the Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and grandson of former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, attacked parliamentary leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday, referring to his grandfather as the leader of a non-Gandhi political party. claimed to have “little” respect for Speaking of Rahul’s visit to the former prime minister’s memorial, he said parliamentarians addressed a rally near Hyderabad’s Indira Gandhi statue but “deliberately” left without paying respect to Narasimha Rao. “Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the former Prime Minister’s memorial in Delhi was almost a show of respect for the party to a veteran non-Gandhian leader who sacrificed his life to strengthen the country and the party. During the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi visited the memorial and paid tribute to former prime ministers including Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and even Atal Bihari Vajpayee but did not pay tribute to Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao other than Gandhi,” NV Subhash told news agency ANI.
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“History is evidence that the party has never credited leaders who do not belong to the Gandhi family,” the parliament said. The party would have struggled to survive had PV Narasimha Rao not become Prime Minister in 1991.”
BJP leaders have delved into the Bharat Jod Yatra (Parliament’s Kanyakumari to Kashmir mass contact program), calling it a “useless walking exercise.”
Other BJP leaders also condemn Rahul Gandhi For not visiting Narasimha Rao’s Samadhi in Hyderabad. Amit Malviya, head of the BJP IT cell, said he would have visited Hyderabad’s samadhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra if Gandhi had been “honest in paying homage to the former prime minister”. On Monday, Rahul Gandhi visited a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi and several former prime ministers in New Delhi. He visited Veer Bhumi, Shakti Sthal and Shanti Van. This is a memorial to former prime ministers his Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
(with ANI input)
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