Haryana BJP sends Jalebis to Rahul Gandhi in a swipe to campaign speech
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New Delhi: The BJP's Haryana unit sent a kilogram of Jelebis, which is a sweet fried pastry, to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi at his Delhi office as a swipe to mark the party’s return to power for the third time, NDTV reported.
The sweet dish was sent ‘on behalf of all the workers of Bhartiya Janta Party (in) Haryana’ not as courtesy gesture.
The saffron party took to platform X attaching a screenshot confirming the order of the dish from Delhi-based sweets and chaat shop to Mr Gandhi, adding that: ‘jalebis have been sent to Rahul Gandhi's home’.
Campaigning in Haryana, Rahul Gandhi claimed that the Jalebi sellers in Gohana were hurt by Centre’s GST system.
He reportedly said that sweet dish was mas manufactured and sold in the country while exporting it, creating employment.
The BJP responded to his comment saying that the Congress leader was clueless about how jalebis were made with Ex Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad saying that ‘one has to understand how they are made and are sold’.
Ravi Shankar Prasad added that Rahul Gandhi failed to do his ‘homework properly’.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also mentioned jalebis in a stump speech earlier this year when he took on INDIA bloc's plan to rotate the Prime Minister's post every year if it came to power.
PM Modi asked if Prime Minister's post is like ‘Matu Ram ki jalebi’, referring to the popular brand of the region, where local businessman Matu Ram first made the sweet dish in 1958.
The family’s business today is being run by his grandsons.