Rahul Gandhi accuses Narendra Modi of lying over claim on Amethi ordnance factory 

Rahul Gandhi.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, on Monday, accused Narendra Modi of “peddling lies”, just a day after the prime minister claimed that since its inauguration in 2010 “no rifles were made” at the ordnance factory in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi. Amethi is Gandhi’s Lok Sabha constituency.

Replying to Modi’s charge, the Congress president tweeted: “Dear Prime Minister, I, myself laid the foundation stone of the ordnance factory in 2010. In the last few years, the factory has been manufacturing small weaponry. You went to Amethi yesterday and by force of habit, you lied again. Do you have no shame at all?”

प्रधानमंत्री जी,

अमेठी की ऑर्डिनेंस फैक्ट्री का शिलान्यास 2010 में मैंने खुद किया था।

पिछले कई सालों से वहां छोटे हथियारों का उत्पादन चल रहा है।

कल आप अमेठी गए और अपनी आदत से मजबूर होकर आपने फिर झूठ बोला।

क्या आपको बिल्कुल भी शर्म नहीं आती?

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 4, 2019

This was in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first visit to Amethi after assuming office, where he said the district would now be known for the AK-203 rifle, which will be made in Amethi, “not for its high-profile political leaders”, in an apparent dig at Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

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