Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remark that "dimagi Naxals" had taken control of several organizations, saying security personnel did not believe the prime minister's claims.
Addressing CRPF personnel, Gandhi said their faces showed they had not bought the prime minister's lies. He repeated his challenge to Modi to debate who is anti-national and who is controlled by foreign forces, saying the challenge stands for any time and any place. Gandhi added that, after such a debate, the prime minister would not have the courage to stand before a single jawan again.
Modi made the remarks while celebrating Diwali with security personnel at a CRPF camp in Karanpur, in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district. He told the personnel that armed Naxalites had vanished from the forests, but "intellectual" Naxalites, or dimagi Naxalites, had captured several organizations. He alleged that they continued to provoke people against the Constitution and democracy and had infiltrated political parties and other organizations.
Source: The Indian Express
