‘PM Modi is suffering from memory loss…’: Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Joe Biden’ swipe in Maharashtra

Gandhi described Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetisation as tools designed to harm farmers and small businesses

Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday suggested that he might be showing signs of forgetfulness – allegedly comparing him to outgoing US President Joe Biden, who is often in the limelight for his verbal gaffes.

"My sister told me that these days Prime Minister Narendra Modi was speaking about the same issues that I have been raising. I told him in the Lok Sabha that a caste census should be conducted and the 50 per cent cap on reservations should be removed. Now he is saying in his election rallies that I am against reservation. He is suffering from memory loss like a former US President,” PTI quoted the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha as saying.

Gandhi was speaking at a campaign rally in eastern Maharashtra’s Amravati ahead of the November 20 polls.

The Congress leader also said that his party considers the Constitution to be the country's DNA, but for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) it is a "blank book".

His response followed claims by Modi and the BJP that the Congress leader was displaying a copy of the Constitution with blank pages during his campaign rallies.

The Prime Minister will next say Rahul Gandhi is against caste census, he said.

He described Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetisation as tools designed to harm farmers and small businesses, while adding that rising unemployment was fueling hatred in society.

''I want to tell Modi ji that industrialists haven't chosen you to be the PM, it is done by the people of India. It is true that industrialists have marketed him,'' he said.

His sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also launched an attack on PM Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah accusing them of spreading lies that Rahul Gandhi is against reservations.

Modi and Shah are scared of Rahul Gandhi because he wants a caste census to be conducted, she alleged.