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Attempting To Embarrass Modi Government, Sonia Gandhi’s Aide Ahmed Patel Scores Self-Goal For Congress
Swarajya Staff
Apr 25, 2018, 02:20 PM | Updated 02:20 PM IST
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Sonia Gandhi's closes aide Ahmed Patel, who tweeted out a graph on Tuesday to embarrass the Modi government, scored a self-goal for the Congress instead.
The graph, put out by Patel to draw attention to "agrarian distress" in rural areas, showed that wholesale food prices have fallen since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014, the Times of India has reported.
Alarming fall in wholesale food prices since 2014 underlines the existing agrarian distress.
— Ahmed Patel (@ahmedpatel) April 23, 2018
Farmers are being made to bear the cost of low https://t.co/7J1iQFzm60 last 4 years their prices barely increased by 3.6% pic.twitter.com/pf3LYbOj7l
The fall in wholesale food prices can also be seen as a positive outcome of the Centre's policies for consumers, and that’s how the BJP projected it.
"Dear Ahmedbhai, thanks for accepting that there was high food inflation during UPA and that NDA has kept food inflation on a tight leash. All this while ensuring rising farmer incomes!," Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said.
This embarrassment came after former Foreign Minister Salma Khurshid scored a self-goal for the Congress at an event in Aligarh Muslim University, saying the party had blood of Muslims on its hands.
"There is blood on our hands. I am also a part of the Congress so let me say it, we have blood on our hands. Is this why you are trying to tell us that if someone attacks you, we must not come forward to protect you?," he had said.
Last month, the party tweeted a poll asking whether people “think the death of 39 Indians in Iraq is Sushma Swaraj's biggest failure as Foreign Minister?”. Close to 34,000 people voted and over 75 percent of them said "No", embarrassing the party.
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