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Taking a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Union minister Smriti Irani has said that Ghulam Nabi Azad has become ‘azad’ (free) now but Amethi has been « liberated » long ago.
Veteran Congress leader Azad, who ended his five-decade association with the grand old party on Friday, accused Rahul Gandhi of demolishing the entire consultative mechanism and also pinned the blame on him for the 2014 electoral debacle.
To a question on Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra and Azad leaving the Congress, Irani told reporters here on Saturday evening, « Congress’s own leadership is commenting especially on the Gandhi family, so we do not need to add anything to it.