By India Today News Desk: Minutes after Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks about verbal abuse during a poll rally in Karnataka’s Bagalkote on Sunday, #CryPMPayCM started trending on Twitter. Priyanka said one has to take such attacks in their stride in public life and asked PM Modi to learn from her brother and disqualified MP Rahul Gandhi, who “is ready to take a bullet for the sake of the country”.
Several users took to Twitter, sharing memes, videos, and media reports with the hashtag, ‘CryPMPayCM’.
One of the users wrote, “Pay CM was incomplete without Cry PM, flop show of BJP is complete now.”
Another user praised Priyanka for her counter and said, “Priyanka Gandhi gives it back to Modi in great style.”
Sharing media reports alleging corruption by Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, a user wrote, “Corrupt CryPM comes to the rescue of corrupt PayCM.
WHAT PRIYANKA SAID
Targeting the Congress over its president Mallikarjun Kharge’s “venomous snake” barb at him, Modi on Saturday said till now the party and its leaders had hurled different types of abuses at him 91 times.
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Addressing a public meeting in poll-bound Karnataka’s Bagalkote district, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, said, “At least they (91 abuses) are fitting on one page; if you look at the abuses by them to my family and if we start making a list, we will publish books after books about it.”
“It is strange what I’m seeing for the past two-three days. I have seen many prime ministers — Indira Ji (Indira Gandhi), she took bullets for this country. I have seen Rajiv Gandhi. He sacrificed his life for this country. I have seen P V Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh working hard for this country,” she said.
“But he (Modi) is the first prime minister I have seen who comes before you and cries that he is being abused. Instead of listening to your grief, he is coming here and telling you his (problems).”
