Please don't lie, says Rahul Gandhi after PM's 'Made in Amethi' jibe

Prime Minister, the foundation of Amethi's ordnance factory was done by me in 2010. For the past several years, it has been producing small firearms: Rahul Gandhi tweeted

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi addresses booth workers in Cochin, Kerala, on Tuesday, January 29, 2019. Photo: @INCIndia

BS Web Team New Delhi

Last Updated : Mar 04 2019 | 11:59 AM IST

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of a Kalashnikov manufacturing unit in Amethi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused him of being a ‘habitual liar’.

He asserted that the Korwa ordnance factory, which Modi visited to inaugurate a new manufacturing unit for AK 203 assault rifles, had been producing small arms for a while.

“Prime Minister, the foundation of Amethi’s ordnance factory was done by me in 2010. For the past several years, it has been producing small firearms,” Gandhi said on Twitter.

"Yesterday you went to Amethi and, as usual, lied. Don't you feel

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