Rahul Gandhi brings up Narendra Modi’s marital status at Doda rally

Modi, who contested four assembly elections in Gujarat since 2001, admitted for the first time that he has a wife and her name is Jashodaben. The acknowledgement follows a Supreme Court judgment and subsequent order by the Election Commission in September 2013 making it mandatory for candidates to fill in their affidavits fully.

Taking a jibe on BJP slogans about women empowerment and protecting their dignity, Rahul said that while ministers in its government in Karnataka were accused of committing atrocities on women, its legislators were caught watching porn in the Vidhan Sabha. He also referred to his visit to Chattisgarh, saying that he was told that 30,000 women had disappeared from there. Where those women have gone, he asked.

Not only this, the entire Gujarat Police got involved in snooping on a woman and still they bring out posters in Delhi talking of women dignity and their empowerment, Rahul said. What kind of empowerment and dignity is this, he asked.

Appealing people to vote for National Conference-Congress coalition candidates in the state, he said that BJP has nothing of its own. Even its election manifesto was a copy of the Congress, he added.