“Only tea seller can suggest selling pakodas for employment”, Hardik Patel attacks Narendra Modi

“Only tea seller can suggest selling pakodas for employment”, Hardik Patel attacks Narendra Modi

Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Patidar leader Hardik Patel on Monday said that only a tea seller can suggest that unemployed youth should sell “pakodas”.

“Berozgar yuvao ko pakode ka thela lagane ka sujav ek chaiwala hi de sakta hai. Arthshastri aise sujav nahi deta!!!,” (Only a tea seller can suggest to unemployed youth to sell snacks, an economist would not do that),” Patel said  in a tweet.

The Patel quota demand spearhead was apparently comparing Modi to former prime minister Manmohan Singh, an eminent economist.

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Patel had backed the Congress in the recent Gujarat Assembly elections.

His tweet came after Modi, in a recent interview to a television channel, reportedly said: “If a person selling pakodas (snacks) earns Rs 200 at the end of the day, will it be considered employment or not?” In the run up to Gujarat elections, the Congress’s youth wing mouthpiece, ‘Yuva Desh’, had tweeted a meme on the tea- seller background of Modi.

It showed Modi, US President Doland Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May in one frame. Modi was shown mispronouncing the word ‘meme’ as ‘main main’, prompting Trump to correct him. May was shown telling Modi: “You go, sell tea”.

Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar had, in the run up to the 2014 parliament elections, spoken about Modi’s ‘chaiwala’ background. Modi had used it to turn the tables on the Congress, accusing it of disdain for the poor.