After Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s speeches have been fact-checked by a satirical political website that said he made false statements in a majority of them, the BJP launched a strong offensive against him for “lying” and “misleading” the country’s young population.
Rahul Gandhi’s Pune edition of the campaign focussed on girl students and young women’s welfare.
Days earlier, Congress leader Pawan Khera had said the Chhatro Ki Goonj programme had reached Delhi and created “panic” even before the message had fully arrived.
BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari said that in response to Rahul Gandhi’s lies young people have now launched a campaign called ‘Jhooth Ki Goonj’ to expose the Congress leader’s attempt to misuse students’ grievances towards a political end. The Congress campaign had targeted the BJP-led Centre over educational reforms. “I read all the 40 statements that Rahul Gandhi gave in the last four programmes. Many young people are saying that all 40 of them have been proven to be either lies or misleading,” the BJP spokesperson said.
The website, ‘Jhooth Ki Goonj’, said that it went through 40 statements made by Rahul Gandhi at four separate events linked to the Congress MP’s ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ campaign, and found 29 of them were “false” and 11 were “misleading”. “Whatever lies Rahul Gandhi has told, parallel to that, I saw young people sharing the echo of lies website. Let Rahul Gandhi do public relations stunts but the youth of the country can hear his echo of lies,” Bhandari said.
