Nasty, Shameful: Smriti Irani Slams Punjab CM Channi for ‘UP De Bhaiye’ Remark : #RashtraNews
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Calling Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s UP, Bihar, Delhi de bhaiye remark, nasty and shameful, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said while the BJP united people, the Congress divided them. Addressing an election meeting in support of party candidate Vijay Sampla at Hadiabad sub-town in the evening, the Women and Child Development minister said Channi’s statement was against the spirit of Bhartiyata and was aimed at disintegrating the society.
During a poll rally in Rupnagar, Channi courted controversy by asking people not to let the bhaiyas of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi enter the state, a remark apparently aimed at AAP leaders. In a video circulating on social media, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was seen besides Channi clapping when he made the remark.
Priyanka Gandhi is the daughter-in-law of Punjab. We will not let the Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi de bhaiye, who have come here to rule, enter the state, Channi, also the Congress chief ministerial candidate, had said. The word bhaiyas in reference to the people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar is considered offensive. Irani asserted that the workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, too, were contributing in tandem with the people of Punjab towards the country’s progress, and said Channi’s remarks were nasty and shameful.
He should rather honour ’rashtra niti’ (national policy), leaving aside his personal ’rajniti’ (politics), she said. The BJP leader also accused the Gandhi family of unilaterally deciding on the chief ministerial candidate saying it once again proved that it was the Gandhi dynasty that decided and not ’janata-janardhan’ (people). In a veiled reference to Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s visit to Pakistan, Irani alleged that Congress produced leaders who hugged the army chief of an enemy country and called him brother.
Targeting the Congress over anti-Sikh riots, she said while the party protected the killers of innocent Sikhs for 30 years, the Narendra Modi government sent them to jail. She lavished praise on the Modi government for effectively managing’ COVID-19 and the prime minister trusting the capability of Indians in making vaccines.
There was a concern in the world as to how a country of 135 crore people would face the pandemic but Prime Minister Modi showed them how it is done, she said. Praising an industrial unit in Phagwara, the minister said it produced the first-approved PPE sample suit, following which 1,100 other companies produced such kits in the next three months, making India its second-largest exporter.
Had there had been a Congress government (at the Centre), it would have miserably failed to tackle the pandemic and provide free ration to the poor, she remarked. Earlier, addressing another poll rally at Kapurthala, Irani appealed to the people of Punjab to bring the BJP-led alliance to power for the state’s overall development.
Asking the people to vote for her party on February 20, Irani assured a massive infrastructure development to revive Punjab’s economy at a cost of Rs one lakh crore over the next five years.
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