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Talk of empowering people hollow when PM left powerless: BJP

New Delhi: BJP today ridiculed Rahul Gandhi's comments that he believed in empowering people and fighting graft, saying his claims sound hollow as he and his mother Sonia Gandhi had even “snatched” away the powers

PTI Published : Apr 13, 2014 18:57 IST, Updated : Apr 13, 2014 19:00 IST
“The same Rahul Gandhi who along with his mother made the PM powerless says he will now give strength to the people of India,” he said sarcastically, referring to the content of the book written by Singh's former media adviser Sanjaya Baru.

By not rebutting the book's claim that the ruling Congress pressurised PM Manmohan Singh into giving credit to Gandhi for NREGA, Prasad said the Congress leader has only confirmed it.

The BJP leader ridiculed Gandhi's assertion that he fought against graft by introducing institutional reforms like RTI, saying, “coalgate, 2G scam and railgate all happened during UPA rule despite RTI.”

“Let me tell you Rahul Gandhi humbly that people of India are not fools as you think them to be,” he said.

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