Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party over the latter's comment on the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Taking to Twitter, the former Union minister wrote, “Modiji asks Rahulji : " Did your Nana Nani Dada Dadi lay ... water pipelines.... Ask how you got drinking water at platform when you were young. Nehruji laid the foundation of a modern industrial India But your party's Nana Nani's Dada Dadi's collaborated with the British !”
Modiji asks Rahulji : " Did your Nana Nani Dada Dadi lay ... water pipelines....
Ask how you got drinking water at platform when you were young
Nehruji laid the foundation of a modern industrial India
But your party's Nana Nani's Dada Dadi's collaborated with the British !
— Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) November 17, 2018
Later, at the press conference, he said, "I want to ask the Prime Minister who built the Hirakud dam, Sardar Sarovar dam, Tehri dam, Bhakra dam? The dada- dadi of Prime Minister Modi or his party? Does he know anything about the history of India?. They (BJP`s ancestors) were the ones who were collaborating with the British. In the 1942 Quit-India movement, they sided with the British. That was the conduct of their dada-dadis and nana-nanis. Unfortunately, he does not even know about his own dada-dadis, I wish he did," Sibal said.
The Congress leader was responding to a recent comment by PM Modi at an election rally in Chhattisgarh`s Ambikapur.
"What did the Congress governments do for the people of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh when they were in power in these states. Four generations of Congress ruled but they have nothing to tell the people. Every day we are giving a report card of what we have done in the last four years," the Prime Minister had said.
The second phase of polling in Chhattisgarh is due on November 20, while the first phase concluded on November 12. The counting of votes will be held on December 11.
