NEW DELHI: Devendra Fadnavis on Friday criticised Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar for making “personal attacks” against him and accused the grand old party’s “troll army” of “abusing my wife on the Instagram reels she made.”
“‘Sharam aani chahiye, chullu bhar paani mein doob marna chahiye’…I am not surprised by this. My wife and I have suffered for the last 5 years. They could not find anything against me, they deployed all the agencies against me. They investigated everything from my hair to my blood but did not find anything against me. In the last five years, when Congress could not do anything against me in any of the investigations they carried out, they started personal attacks against me and his troll army started abusing my wife on the Instagram reels she made,” Fadnavis told ANI.
“If a civilized person saw the trolls made against my wife, they would be highly embarrassed. I told my wife that considering that we are in politics, we have to be patient and that truth can be troubled, but not defeated,” he added.
At a recent campaign rally in Nagpur, Kanhaiya Kumar criticized Devendra Fadnavis’ remarks calling the upcoming elections a “Dharamyudh.” The Congress leader argued that the responsibility of “saving religion” should not be reduced to mere political rhetoric, especially while the deputy chief minister’s wife is busy making “Instagram reels.”
“Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said that this is a ‘Dharamyudh’. This is a good thing. It is our Dharam to protect the democracy and the constitution for which I am standing and giving a speech today. Whichever leader talks about saving religion, you have to ask only one thing to that leader who is giving you speech about saving religion that will your son or daughter join us in this fight to save religion?” he questioned.
“Will this happen that the responsibility of saving the religion will be ours and your children will study in Oxford Cambridge universities. If we want to save religion, let us save it together. It can’t be like we save religion and the deputy chief minister’s wife makes reels on Instagram. It can’t be like that. Everyone will save the religion together,” Kanhaiya added.
The BJP condemned Kumar’s remarks, with spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla branding Kanhaiya as a “Naxali Afzal Guru supporter” and accusing him of disrespecting Marathi women by attacking Amruta Fadnavis.