PM Modi is Coward and Timid- Rahul Gandhi

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi put yet another challenge for a face-to-face debate to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on national security, Rafale jet deal and the state of the nation's economy. The allotted time, he said, would be The allotted time, he said, would be five minutes, But the Prime Minster, Mr. Gandhi added, is a "coward" and "timid".


" I know PM Modi's character after fighting him for 5 years, he is a coward. When someone stands up to him, he runs away," Mr. Gandhi said.

"I challenge the BJP, let Narendra Modi Ji debate with me on stage. He is scared. He is a coward (darpok). I have recognized him," the Congress chief added to roaring applause from the party members he was addressing.

The Congress President said the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has been remote-controlling the Modi government and promised to weed out every RSS man from the country's institutions which the right-combine has planted in the last 5 years.

The 48-year-old Gandhi also ridiculed Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Savarkar over his mercy petitions to the British.

"I am telling you, be it the RSS or BJP, Modi or Savarkar they are all cowards."

There was no response from the BJP on the deal. But in Parliament, during his response to the Motion of Thanks, PM Modi questioned how the Congress could "say lies on Rafale with such confidence".