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Congress President Rahul Gandhi. (INCIndia/Twitter)
Chairman of Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi and former BARC scientist Dr. Suresh Haware today (11 April) called out Rahul Gandhi for an insensitive tweet in which he implied Saibaba’s extraordinary grace on Railway Minister Piyush Goyal.
In his tweet, Rahul Gandhi had attacked Piyush Goyal and his wife insinuating that their company had reaped unnatural gains in recent years. “The miracles of Shirdi have no limits”, Gandhi’s tweet read.
However, the Shirdi Trust Board chairman has expressed his displeasure at the way the tweet was worded and has asked Rahul to apologise for hurting the religious sentiments of Sai followers across the world. He termed Rahul’s action of maligning the shrine’s name as painful and asked him to apologise for the insult.
Union Railways minister Piyush Goyal had earlier on 5 April clarified that there was no confusion about the company’s dealings and the Congress leader’s allegations were based in the party’s inability to differentiate between clean commercial transactions and corrupt practices.
"The malicious statement by Congress about Goyal factually misleads and makes incorrect conclusions and is full of factual inaccuracies, mixes up of dates and alludes to events with no relevance to Goyal's brief association with Shirdi Industries," a statement released on Goyal’s behalf read.
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