Rahul still not mature: Modi

A day after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi spent a good part of his 30-minute address in Lok Sabha to attack the government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit back at him saying “some people age, but do not mature”.

Modi also narrated a tale on Communist leader Joseph Stalin’s Russia in Parliament, to obliquely respond to Rahul’s charges against the government in the Jawaharlal Nehru University case.

“Russian PM Nikita Khrushchev used to criticise Stalin after his death. A young man once asked him — ‘Why are you criticising Stalin? What did you do when he was alive and you worked with him?’ He told the person — ‘You have got the answer? What you are able to do now, I wanted to but couldn’t during Stalin’s time’,” Modi said in the Lok Sabha in presence of



Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul. In another attack aimed at the Congress leader, Modi said that he has been facing questions and allegations, but there are a few who do not like to be accountable.

“Any person can ask us questions, they have the right to. But there are some who are not accountable... no one dares to ask them, no one dares to tell them anything. And I have seen what happens to those who try to,” Modi said.

A combative Rahul on Wednesday had come up with a catchy phrase – “fair and lovely” scheme “launched” by the government to legitimise black money which was akin to his earlier “suit boot ki sarkar” barb. The BJP is contemplating moving a notice against Rahul for using “fair and lovely” phrase that was seen as a racially discriminatory.