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This Article is From Apr 14, 2016

Robert Vadra Takes A Dig At Modi Government, Says People Are Upset

Robert Vadra Takes A Dig At Modi Government, Says People Are Upset
Robert Vadra said he can "absorb" a lot and people will get to know the truth about him. (PTI file photo)
New Delhi: Robert Vadra, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law, took a dig at the central government, saying people are "upset" and will "revolt".

"I wish the government best. But I think people will revolt and understand what is right and wrong. In business people are upset, in real estate people are upset. They will start voicing their opinion soon enough," he said.

While the BJP reacted sharply saying "a people's revolt" had already happened in 2014 when the "corrupt" UPA government was voted out of power, Congress declined to comment.

The controversial businessman, whose land deals are being probed by BJP governments in Haryana and Rajasthan, said people will soon realise when their day-to-day life was better and they were happy. "As far as communal issues are concerned, we (country) take all religions along."

Accused by critics of using the name of his in-laws to further his business interest, Mr Vadra said he did not need Priyanka (Gandhi) to "enhance" his life. "I had enough."

He said he can "absorb" a lot and people will get to know the truth about him.

"The nation should know the truth about me and I think in time people will know," he said.

To a question, he said he would never leave the country no matter "how much I am humiliated or whatever the government wants to keep on writing or saying."

At the AICC briefing, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma chose to ignore questions over the interview.

BJP attacked Mr Vadra saying the government was "pro-common man" and the only people feeling the heat were those who had committed "fraud" and made money at the expense of poor farmers.

"As far as people's revolt is concerned, it has already happened. It happened in 2014 when people threw Congress out of the power due to its corruption and mal-governance," party's national secretary Shrikant Sharma said.

In a reference to Mr Vadra's other comments, the BJP leader said he was expressing "his anguish with his in-laws" and his attack on the government could be a ruse.

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