Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani hits back at Rahul, calls him 'Gappidas'

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Sunday hit back at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi by calling him 'Gappidas' for making claims about rampant unemployment across the state.

Rupani emphasised that he is ready to debate with Gandhi about the figures of unemployment in the state. Rupani added that Gandhi's claim of 30 Lakh unemployed people was baseless.

Earlier, Rahul Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to deliver on his promises. "The Prime Minister had said that he would provide jobs to two crore youth every year. We asked the concerned minister in the Parliament that how many jobs did you provide to youths this year. The reply was: the BJP led Centre could only provide one lakh jobs to the youth in one year," said Gandhi.

The Congress and its vice-president have made economy one of their biggest election issues. Gandhi has repeatedly attacked PM Modi and his finance minister Arun Jaitley over demonetisation and the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax, which Rahul termed 'Gabbar Singh Tax'.

PM Modi trying to 'demon-etise' Tamil pride (a reference to state BJP leaders opposing scenes related to GST in the Vijay-starrer Mersal) and asked him to give Donald Trump another hug after the US president tweeted positively about the current Pakistani leadership, Gandhi had said.

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