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Rahul Can’t Be Prime Minister As Sonia Is A ‘Foreigner’, Says BSP; Pitches For Mayawati Instead
All smiles but no understanding? Mayawati (L) with Sonia and Rahul Gandhi. (Arijit Sen/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Prime ministerial ambitions seem to be already getting the better of the Mahagathbandan (Grand Alliance) with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) yesterday (17 July) saying Congress president Rahul Gandhi could not aspire to the post due to his mother’s “foreign origin”.
Gandhi, who is widely believed to be the Congress’s prime ministerial face, “looks more like his mother than his father”, and since his mother is a foreigner, he can never be the prime minister, the party leaders said, as reported by Hindustan Times.
Projecting its president Mayawati as the prime ministerial candidate for next year’s general election, BSP national co- ordinators Vir Singh and Jai Prakash Singh said it was “high time that Mayawati became the prime minister of the country”, and that she was the only one who could take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
They said this while addressing the first workers’ conference to discuss the party’s strategy for the Lok Sabha election.
Singh said the BSP chief was more eligible than Rahul Gandhi to become prime minister as she is a “grass roots leader who has served as Uttar Pradesh chief minister four times”.
Citing a recent example, Jai Prakash said that the BSP supremo played a crucial role in making H D Kumaraswamy the Chief Minister of Karnataka, and has emerged as a powerful politician, who is not just a Dalit leader, but has the backing of all communities. “She is the only ‘dabang’ (fearless) leader who can stop the winning chariot of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in the electoral battle,” he said.
Congress representatives refused to react to the comment.
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