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“Considering her health, Sonia ji should have been taken to hospital in a well-equipped ambulance. Still, doctors are best judges,” Modi tweeted on Tuesday.
Stung at the implication that the Congress had been negligent about their leader’s health or uncaring about Gandhi’s indisposition, the Congress retorted that Modi’s concerns were misplaced. “All arrangements were there. What was considered appropriate by Mrs Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and the medical team, which was attending to her, was done,” Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath told reporters here.
Asked whether Modi was trying to politicise the issue, Nath said, “Mr Modi must himself decide what he is trying to do.”
Congress spokesperson Bhakta Charan Das said: “I think in a civilised world, leaders should not do any politics on the health condition and treatment of others.” Das even questioned “whether any human being could raise such questions".
Going by Modi’s analogy, Das said, “It could have been very well asked why Parliament was attacked by terrorists,” referring to the attack on Parliament during National Democratic Alliance rule.
Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj was one of the first to wish Gandhi a speedy recovery through her Twitter page.
