‘My mother more Indian than many Indians’: Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/Bengalore/ “My mother is more Indian than many Indians,” an emotional Rahul Gandhi said today, as he responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sarcastic barb at UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi over her foreign origin.

The Congress president recalled how, despite being an Italian by birth, his mother made sacrifices for the country. “My mother is an Italian. She has lived the larger part of her life in India. She is more Indian than many, many Indians I have seen.

“She has sacrificed her life for the country, she has suffered for the country. When Modi makes such comments, it shows the quality of the man. I am happy if he enjoys making such comments, he is welcome,” he told a press conference before winding up his extensive tour of election-bound Karnataka.

The issue of Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin was raked up by Modi at an election rally in Santemaranahalli on May 1 where he dared the Congress chief to speak for 15 minutes about the achievements of the Karnataka government in any language, including his “mother’s mother tongue”.