Congress president, Rahul Gandhi today said that Prime Minister Modi “maintains a distance with poor people and therefore doesn’t hugs them,” even though he may well have touched the feet of poor persons.
“Touching feet and hugging are two different things. Hugging is a physical closeness. It’s a particular distance he (PM) maintains with poor people which he doesn’t maintain with Obama or others,” Rahul said while interacting with the media here in Shillong, Meghalaya's State Capital.
The AICC president was reacting to reports of him wearing an expensive jacket here, while his party attacked the Prime Minister in 2015 for wearing an expensive suit and later dubbed the BJP as a “suit boot ka sarkar.”
“Somebody gave that to me (jacket,)” Rahul said on the controversy, but went on to say that the prime Minister deliberately maintains a distance from the poor and so it is a suit boot ka sarkar.
He further said you will not see a him (PM) hug a poor man talk to a poor person, talk or engage to a person. You will see him with others."
