On ‘arrogance’, Irani says Rahul perhaps forgot his mother was Cong chief

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 12

Hours after the Congress vice president said arrogance had crept into the Congress in 2012, Union Minister Smriti Irani said perhaps Rahul Gandhi had forgotten that his mother was the party president then.

Irani said: “This confession by Rahul Gandhi is something his party needs to introspect.”

: Union Minister Smriti Irani addresses the media in Delhi

— ANI (@ANI)

She said: “What he said about Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not surprising.  A failed dynast has no good words to speak about cooperative federalism in foreign soil.”She said Rahul Gandhi has belittled and insulted Indian democracy.

She said: “Since he has no backing here, he is complaining abroad. Rahul Gandhi should answer what development work he has done in his own constituency while he was giving his vision about India in the US.”

"A failed dynast today chose to speak about his failed political journey in the US," Irani said at a BJP press conference.

During his interaction, Gandhi had argued that India is being run by dynasties and cited the examples of the Samajwadi Party, DMK and even Bollywood.