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Jaitley slams Khurshid for questioning Modi's popularity abroad

India Blooms News Service | | Nov 18, 2014, at 01:16 am

New Delhi, Nov 17 (IBNS): Slamming Salman Khurshid for raising a question on the genuineness of audience gathered during Narendra Modi's trips abroad, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said he can understand the plight of the Congress leader and his party colleagues particularly when the Prime Minister gets a larger crowd in Sydney.

"Shri Salman Khurshid has made a fascinating claim. He says that there were no people to meet him when he visited Myanmar and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been exporting groups from India to all foreign destinations wherever he visits," Jaitley said in a statement.

"If UPA leaders, during their days in Government, left the expatriate Indian population underwhelmed, is it to be presumed that this should be true for others? I can understand the plight of Salman and his party colleagues particularly when Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets a larger crowd in Sydney than what Salman’s leader gets in India," he stated.

This comes after Khurshid, who was a former External Affairs Minister, had raised question over the genuineness of the big gathering of the people during Modi's speech at Myanmar's capital Nay Pyi Taw.

"I have been to Nay Pyi Taw twice. No one is found on the streets there. Then how come 20,000 people came to listen to him (Modi). He must have taken along many with him," Khurshid had told reporters in Farukhabad in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.

#Arun Jaitley slams Salman Khurshid for questioning Narendra Modi's popularity abroad

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