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The Congress and the BJP on Sunday crossed swords over Narendra Modi’s attack on Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s “beehive” remark with ruling party leaders saying it did not need lessons on patriotism and also that Delhi is still far off for the Gujarat chief minister.
Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari asserted that metaphors denoting cohesion and unity were beyond the comprehension of “self appointed jingoists” while his ministerial colleague Kapil Sibal said the BJP strongman should not be in a hurry to come to the national capital, saying, “Dilli dur ast” (Delhi is still far off).
Union minister Rajiv Shukla said the Congress did not need lessons of patriotism from the BJP as none of its leader “had fought for the freedom of the country”.
But the BJP leader Balbir Punj sarcastically said the Congress vice-president’s comparison of the country to a beehive is correct if assessed from the ruling party’s point of view and went on to talk about lives of bees.
“The comparison made to a beehive is correct according to the Congress. What is there in a beehive? There is a queen bee, and all the other bees toil and gather honey, the taste of which is taken by the others and the queen bee does not do any work,” Mr Punj said.
Stating that the Congress has only this perspective about this country, Mr Punj said, “What or who is the queen bee here? But the ordinary bees here are the country’s common people for sure.”