Will criticise the PM, but never disrespect him: Rahul Gandhi

NOVEMBER 12, 2017 14:29 IST

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said despite “differences with BJP and PM” the Congress will never “disrespect the position of PM the way BJP used to do while in opposition.”

Mr. Gandhi interacted with social media volunteers and activists of the Congress party in Palanpur, North Gujarat where he is on a three-day campaign leading his party’s Navsarjan Yatra.

“Whatever we do, spot Modi’s faults or disturb BJP, we won’t disrespect PM’s position. When Modi-ji was in the opposition he used to speak with disrespect about PM,” he said, stressing that there is a “difference between us and them. No matter what Modi says about us, we’ll not go beyond a certain point as he is the Prime Minister.”

“The position of the Prime Minister represents the people of India so we will never disrespect that position,” he added.

He asked the party volunteers to use social media platforms to spread the message of Congress party, it’s ideology and values it stands for not and not for disrespecting the Prime Minister by using any bad language.

He also said that most of the tweets from his official twitter handle are by himself except the routine ones like birthday wishes, which are posted by his team.

He also gave a glimpse of the working of his social media team managing his profile on Twitter. A team of 3-4 people fine-tune his ideas and suggestions into tweets, which are then posted on his official Twitter account, @OfficeOfRG.

“Routine work, like birthday wishes isn’t done by me, I give little inputs on it, tweets on political issues are mine,” he said, adding that a team of 3-4 people discuss, reflect and fine tune his ideas and suggestion into tweets which are then posted on the official account @OfficeofRG.

Source: http://www.thehindu.com/elections/gujarat-2017/will-criticise-the-pm-but-never-disrespect-him-rahul-gandhi/article20320580.ece