The BJP mocked Rahul Gandhi over his reported Vietnam visit and shared a flight video. The jibe came amid INDIA bloc protests over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.
A video purportedly shows Rahul Gandhi travelling abroad in business class (Photo: BJP X account)
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday took a swipe at Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi over his reported visit to Vietnam, amid ongoing Congress-led protests against alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Accusing Gandhi of taking a break after “spreading lies”, the BJP shared a video on its official X account that purportedly showed him travelling in a flight's business-class cabin.
“I'm tired of spreading lies... Let me go roam around Vietnam for a few days... Who would even find out!” the BJP wrote in its post.
In the video, a man wearing a blue T-shirt and AirPods is seen seated in the cabin. The man appears to resemble Gandhi, while a fellow passenger is heard identifying him as the Leader of the Opposition and discussing it with another passenger.
However, the video does not independently establish the man's identity or confirm that he was travelling to Vietnam.
According to a report by The Indian Express, which cited Congress leaders, Gandhi took a few days off for a personal trip abroad and is learnt to have left for Vietnam for four days. The report also stated that he was expected to stay there for four days.
The reported trip comes after Gandhi participated in the Congress's Goy Rakhon Yatra (Save Goa March) in poll-bound Goa, where he walked for two kilometres alongside party leaders. Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in the state next year.
The BJP's jibe also comes amid protests by the Congress and other INDIA bloc constituents against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of electoral malpractice.
On October 12, Congress and other INDIA bloc leaders held a ‘March for Democracy’ rally to the Supreme Court and submitted a petition concerning the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Opposition parties have also held several other protests over allegations of irregularities in the electoral revision exercise.
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