Water from thin air?: Rahul mocks PM Modi; BJP responds with taunts

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, October 9

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on Friday mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion that wind turbines can separate oxygen from the air, make clean drinking water and create energy, had the BJP gunning for him with ministers and party spokespersons hitting back.

“The real danger to India isn’t that our PM doesn’t understand. It’s the fact that nobody around him has the guts to tell him,” Gandhi said while tweeting a video where the PM can be heard telling a Danish leader to use turbines to make clean drinking water, oxygen supply and energy, for three-in-one use. In response, Dane is heard saying: “Mr PM I am sure you will be challenging my engineers.”

The BJP leaders hit back starting with spokesperson Sambit Patra who tweeted scientific papers on water being produced from thin air and another saying “wind turbine makes 1000 litres of clean water a day in a desert” and said “ Rahul ji tomorrow morning please get up at night & read the two scientific papers that I have attached herewith.

Though I’m sure you won’t understand the complexity of the subject looking at the condition of your non functioning mental “Turbines”!!”

Minister Piyush Goyal also took to Twitter to attack Gandhi saying: “Nobody around Rahul Gandhi has the guts to tell him that he doesn’t understand. He mocks PM @NarendraModi’s ideas when CEO of the world’s leading company endorses them.”

BJP’s social media chief Amit Malviya said “There is no cure for ignorance and entitlement. Entitled brat Rahul thinks everyone around the world is as clueless as he is… He mocks PM’s ideas when CEO of world’s leading wind energy company terms them inspirational!

Watch the last bit of the video he himself posted.”

In the last bit of the video posted by Gandhi, the Danish CEO is saying “I am smiling at your passion Mr PM. Please visit us in Denmark. You sure will challenge my engineers.