Congress still not able to digest chai wala has become PM: Modi

Raipur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday tore into the Congress party, saying it is still not able to digest the fact that a chai wala (tea-seller) had become the prime minister of the country. 

Addressing a rally here ahead of the second phase of Chhattisgarh Assembly Election 2018 on November 20, PM Modi said the leaders of the Congress party are unable to sleep and continue to ask how a tea seller could steal the country's highest chair of governance from them.

“These people still have not come to terms that I am the PM. It has been nearly four and a half years. They are still crying: How can a 'chai wala' become the PM? Now they say a 'chai wala' became PM because of one great person,” Modi said, taking a jibe at the Congress for saying it was because of Jawaharlal Nehru that a tea seller could become PM in



India.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, while speaking at a gathering to mark the birth anniversary of India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on November 14, had said that Nehru had put in place a democratic framework that allowed "even a chai wala to become the prime minister".

“Congress party ko neend nahi aa rahi hai ki ye hamare parivaar ki virasat, hamari rajgaddi ko ye chai wala kaise chura le gaya!” the PM said, speaking to the electorate.

Modi challenged the Congress to allow a non-Gandhi to become the party president and then he will accept the fact that he became the PM due to Nehru’s legacy.

“I want to challenge them, let some good leader of Congress outside of the family become the party president for five years, then I will say that Nehru ji really created a truly democratic system there,” he said.