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Rahul Gandhi Goes Mobile Again; This Time Asks Why PM Modi Did Not Buy His Phone From BHEL
Rahul Gandhi talking on a phone in 2013 (Sonu Mehta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
As elections to the legislative assemblies of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan – considered a precursor to the General Election due next summer –approach, Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s frenzied attacks on the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi have increased manifold.
After attacking Modi over alleged irregularities in the Rafale deal with France in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the No Confidence Motion where he hugged Modi, the Congress leader has attacked Modi once again.
In the video, posted on Twitter by BJP spokesperson Samit Patra, Gandhi is seen asking “why did he not buy a phone from BHEL?” before terming it the cellphone gotala or cellphone scam.
One of the several public sector undertakings (PSUs) in the engineering sector, BHEL does not manufacture mobile phones. BHEL’s primary products include heavy machinery including generators, turbines, motors, pumpsets, and locomotives.
Electronics are manufactured by two other PSUs – Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) – of which neither manufacture mobile phones. The last major PSU, Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) manufactures earthmovers, metro trainsets, and dumpers.
The only PSU to manufacture telecom equipment is the Indian Telephone Industries Limited (ITIL). Based out of Doorvaninagar in Bengaluru, it used to manufacture landline phones but now only manufacturers equipment such as routers, switches and exchanges.
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