FM questions Rahul’s claim of damaging Modi’s image

New Delhi: Calling Congress president Rahul Gandhi a “megalomaniac, “ having a “self-illusory opinion” and a “sense of entitlement”, Union minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the Congress leader’s “revenge” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not succeed, but can turn out against his own party.

Taking on the Congress president for his reported remark that he has “dismantled Modi’s image”, the senior BJP leader, in a blogpost, asked how will he “damage the reputation” of the PM who is “incredibly honest, is at the peak of his popularity, whose personal acceptability is high and is the greatest communicators of his time”.

“Dynasts have self-illusory opinion about themselves. They create a disproportionate image about their own abilities in their own mind and believe that the universe around them thinks alike. They tend to become megalomaniacs. Rahul Gandhi is no exception,” wrote Mr Jaitley in the blog titled “A dynast’s non-existent revenge against the man who defeated him in 2014”.

Describing Mr Modi as the “greatest communicators of his times”, Mr Jaitley said Mr Gandhi, who has a “disproportio-nate impression about his oratorical skills” had challenged the PM for a public debate.

He said Mr Gandhi comes out with “outrageous ideas about security, economy and social issues” and believes that his views have found mass acceptability.

“With Prime Minister Modi’s personal acceptability ratings today being close to 70 per cent, Rahul proclaims that he is dead sure that Mr Modi is very unpopular. The irony of every dynast isthat he buys his own propaganda even if there are not too many others willing to accept it,” said the senior leader.  

Hurling the dynasty barb, Mr Jaitley said dynasts have a sense of entitlement and its become unccapetable to them that they lose to a person of modest origins.

“Dynasts have a sense of entitlement.  They believe that they were born to rule. Gandhis suffer from this sense of entitlement. The 2014 election was a nutter shock to them....The strategy   devised was that Modi had to be fought and removed...The ‘kaamdaar’ was being admired for his work. Unacceptabilityof a commoner challenging the dynast and defeating him led to both envy and revenge,” said Mr Jaitley and added that Mr Gandhi’s statement “I have dismantled Modi’s image” was a give-away. 

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