{"id":302058,"date":"2018-09-01T15:19:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T15:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302058"},"modified":"2018-09-01T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T15:21:19","slug":"union-minister-ashwini-choubey-calls-rahul-gandhi-sewer-worm-sparks-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-minister-ashwini-choubey-calls-rahul-gandhi-sewer-worm-sparks-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Ashwini Choubey calls Rahul Gandhi &#8216;Sewer Worm&#8217;, sparks controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302059 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ashwini-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Ashwini-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Ashwini-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/Ashwini.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/>Union minister and senior BJP leader, Ashwini Kumar Choubey in a controversial remark on Friday, called Congress president Rahul Gandhi a &#8220;schizophrenic&#8221; and a &#8220;sewer worm&#8221;. Ashwini, who is a member of parliament from Bihar&#8217;s Buxar, made the remarks while comparing Rahul Gandhi with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ashwini, while addressing a programme in Bihar\u2019s Sasaram, said &#8220;Narendra Modi is like the sky and Rahul Gandhi is like\u00a0naali ka keeda.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Attacking Rahul Gandhi for peddling lies, Choubey said, &#8220;Rahul Gandhi is calling himself great, intelligent, perfect. He said Modi is a liar on Rafale deal&#8230; This can be said by that person who is suffering from Schizophrenia disease. I think he should be admitted to mental hospital,&#8221; the union minister said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Choubey tagged Congress party as the &#8220;mother of corruption&#8221; and hit out at the opposition by calling\u00a0mahagathbandhan\u00a0(Grand Alliance),\u00a0maha-thag-bandhan(alliance of the corrupt).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said India needs a progressive prime minister and the whole country will unite to make Narendra Modi the prime minister again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is not Choubey&#8217;s first controversial remarks against Rahul Gandhi. In 2015, he had referred to Rahul Gandhi as a parrot who had been speaking against the BJP on the basis of a script written by others after remaining silent during 10 years of UPA rule. He had also called Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s mother and then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as the demonic mythical character &#8220;Putna&#8221; from Mahabharata. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister and senior BJP leader, Ashwini Kumar Choubey in a controversial remark on Friday, called Congress president Rahul Gandhi a &#8220;schizophrenic&#8221; and a &#8220;sewer worm&#8221;. Ashwini, who is a member of parliament from Bihar&#8217;s Buxar, made the remarks while comparing Rahul Gandhi with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ashwini, while addressing a programme in Bihar\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[4563,842,453,236,1544,4565,4568,579,4567,4566,4564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302060,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302058\/revisions\/302060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}