‘What’s The Problem?’: Rahul Gandhi responds to ‘Dog Biscuit’ controversy

Congress scion Rahul Gandhi has courted controversy for serving biscuits, rejected by a dog, to a party worker.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who found himself in the middle of a controversy after he was seen offering a biscuit to a man after it has been rejected by a dog, issued a clarification. He said he handed the biscuit to the dog owner as the dog was nervous.

Reacting to the controversy, the Congress leader said: "The dog was scared, and he didn’t eat the biscuit I offered him. His owner, who was not a Congress worker, was there, and I gave him the biscuit to feed the dog. What is wrong with this?”.

BJP leader and the party’s IT cell head Amit Malviya late on Monday shared a video of Rahul Gandhi serving biscuit from dog’s plate to a Congress leader during ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’.

Sharing the video on X (formerly Twitter), Malviya wrote in Hindi, “Just a few days ago, Congress President Kharge ji compared the party’s booth agents to dogs. And here Rahul Gandhi is feeding biscuits to a dog during his visit, and when the dog did not eat, he gave the same biscuits to his worker. If the president and crown prince of a party treat its party workers like dogs, then it is natural for such a party to disappear.”

Another BJP leader Pallavi CT tweeted the same video and said that Rahul Gandhi disrespected incumbent Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma by forcing him to eat biscuits from the same plate as his dog.

On Monday, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma responded to the tweet of Pallavi CT and informed that he was the only Congress leader who actually refused to eat biscuits from the same plates as Rahul Gandhi’s dog.

“Pallavi ji, not only Rahul Gandhi but the entire family could not make me eat that biscuit. I am a proud Assamese and Indian. I refused to eat and resign from the Congress,” he clarified.