New Delhi: The recent post on social media site Facebook of Congress president Rahul Gandhi has stirred a fresh controversy. Mr Gandhi recently shared an article on Sainik Schools in Mizoram that opened its gates to girl students, fifty years after its inception. Mr Gandhi, who wanted to point out that the girl child is no less than a boy child wrote “Sainik School in Manipur” instead of Mizoram in his post. Congress chief had written “Given the chance, there is nothing a girl cannot do. These girls at the Sainik School in Manipur are proof of this. My best wishes to these brave, inspiring children. You are the future of India. You make us all proud.”
Attacking Mr Gandhi, the BJP IT cell chief Mr. Amit Malviya latched on to the post.
Mr Malviya hit back saying, “Rahul Gandhi shares an article on Mizoram and writes Manipur. It is this ignorance about the Northeast that is so problematic!” The post was promptly taken off and replaced by the correct version but not before the BJP raised the issue.
Mr Gandhi has in the past also been chided for his remarks by the BJP. From “converting potato to gold”, to poverty being a state of mind, the Congress president has come under severe attack of the BJP. According to the BJP, on the Rafale issue also, Mr Gandhi quoted a price of Rs 700 crore per aircraft in Delhi and Karnataka.
In Parliament, he said it was Rs 520 crore per aircraft, in Raipur it was Rs 540 crore.
In Jaipur, he used the two figures — Rs 520 and Rs 540 crores in the same speech.
In one of the blogs explaining about the Rafale deal, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley had termed the Congress president as ‘clown prince’
