The Congress party launched a broadside at Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, its political ally in Maharashtra. The party’s spokesperson Alka Lamba called him “greedy” and shared his photo with industrialist Gautam Adani.
“Scared – greedy people are today singing praises to dictatorial power because of their personal interests,” said Alka Lamba on Twitter while sharing a picture of Sharad Pawar with Gautam Adani.
“Rahul Gandhi alone is fighting the battle of the people of the country – against capitalist thieves and those protecting the thieves,” she wrote.
डरे हुए – लालची लोग ही आज अपने निजी हितों के चलते तानाशाह सत्ता के गुण गा रहे हैं – देश के लोगों की लड़ाई एक अकेला @RahulGandhi लड़ रहा है – पूंजीपति चोरों से भी और चोरों को बचाने वाले चौकीदार से भी.#Modani pic.twitter.com/JNt88bjTNU
— Alka Lamba (@LambaAlka) April 8, 2023
Following her Twitter post, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was quick to respond, with Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister defending Sharad Pawar.
“Politics will come and go but this Tweet by a Congress leader, on their long-standing ally of 35 years and one of India’s senior-most political leaders and a 4 time CM of Maharashtra is appalling. Rahul Gandhi is perverting India’s political culture,” said the deputy chief minister.
Politics will come and go but this Tweet by a Congress leader on their long standing ally of 35 years and one of the India’s senior most political leaders and a 4 time CM of Maharashtra is appalling.@RahulGandhi is perverting India’s political culture ❗️ pic.twitter.com/84olg5FYOc
— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) April 8, 2023
“I am shocked. Is this Congress’ official position. Alka Lamba has made an unbelievable attack on Sharad Pawar ji. She has described him as greedy & a coward. As a Maharashtrian I am pretty flabbergasted,” said the BJP’s official spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla.
