After the BJP took potshots at Rahul Gandhi who was seen wearing a black jacket, costing nearly Rs 70,000 at a music event in Shillong on Tuesday, the Congress president attempted to end the controversy, claiming that the jacket was gifted to him.
The jacket worn by Rahul Gandhi at the event was a two-in-one down puffer jacket from Burberry, a British luxury fashion brand. On the Bloomingdales website, the cost of the jacket was listed as Rs 68,145, reports ANI.
Rahul Gandhi clarified that someone in Shillong gifted him the jacket after the BJP took on to Twitter in retaliation of Rahul Gandhi's "suit boot" jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who worn a monogrammed suit during a meeting with Barack Obama in 2015.
Meanwhile, unfazed by the criticism, the Congress president fired his "suit-boot ki sarkar" salvo at Modi afresh, saying he was always found in the company of people attired in suits and not those that are poor.
"You will not see him (Modi) hug a poor person, talk to a poor person or even engage with a poor person. You will see him with others. There is a particular distance he maintains with the poor people which he does not with Mr Obama or others," he told journalists in Shillong, reports PTI.
"The fact of the matter is that he (Modi) is still a suit-boot person. He has not done anything....," Gandhi said.
Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury came in support of Rahul Gandhi saying the BJP has no moral authority to question Gandhi.
She said the saffron party was "frustrated" due to Gandhi's "rising popularity".
Chowdhury accused the Modi government of being "idle", and said it should rather focus on issues such as the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, and rising prices of fuel and vegetables, reports PTI.
(With agency inputs)
