Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday prayed at the Somnath Temple in Gujarat ahead of his meeting with the newly-elected MLAs to review the party’s performance in the recently concluded state assembly polls.
The Gandhi scion arrived at the Keshod Airport in Gujarat at around 11 am and headed straight to the temple to offer prayers.
On a three-day visit to the state, the 47-year-old leader will be interacting with the MLAs and party workers from all over the state to chalk out am aggressive strategy to counter the BJP especially after the grand old party witnessed a significant increase in their number of seats from 61 in 2012 to 80 in 2017 – a gain of 19 seats.
However, the party will also analyse in detail why it failed to dislodge the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has ruled Gujarat for 22 long years.
Before his visit, the Congress chief again attacked the BJP on social media and accused it of lying to the people of the nation.
“If BJP had a film franchise it would be called Lie Hard,” tweeted Rahul in the wake of the 2G and Adarsh housing society verdict wherein the courts provided relief to the accused from the Congress party and its allies.
Senior Congress leaders have alleged that the BJP manufactured lies and scams to portray the UPA government as a corrupt and dishonest regime just to win elections.
A special CBI court on Thursday acquitted all 18 accused including A Raja and K Kanimozhi of the DMK – an ally of the UPA government — in 2G spectrum allocation case.
A day later, the Bombay High Court on Friday set aside the sanction granted to the Central Bureau of Investigation by Maharashtra Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao to prosecute senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh housing society scam.