Targeting Rahul Gandhi over his party's alliance with fodder case convict and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, Narendra Modi today asked if the Congress Vice President plans to guard the country's resources by allying with leaders accused in scams.
Referring to Gandhi, he said the "shehzade" had said that the country needs its 1.25 crore people to act as watchmen guarding its resources but he was himself relying on tainted leaders.
"And what are the people with whom you have allied. Can those be trusted, the people with whom the Congress has allied, who have just come out of jail," he told a poll meeting in Jhumartaliya in the district.
Modi said that Rahul Gandhi's watchmen would be Ashok Chavan, whose name had figured in the Adarsh scam and Yadav who had been arrested in a fodder scam case.
"Will these be the watchmen with which you will guard the country?" Modi said.
Prasad, who has been convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment last year, is on bail and had allied with the Congress both in Bihar and Jharkhand.
Continuing his attack, the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate said that he had not yet seen a cat, who could be trusted with guarding milk.
Recalling former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's famous quote on central funds that only 15 paise of a rupee reached the people, Modi took a swipe at Congress's symbol.
"It's the wonder of the hand," he said.
