BJP slams Rahul for revocation of Aiyer's suspension
New Delhi, Aug 19 : The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday slammed Congress President Rahul Gandhi for revoking the suspension of Mani Shankar Aiyer's membership from the opposition party, saying both were "incomplete" without each other.
"The revocation of Aiyer's suspension is a matter of worry," BJP Spokesperson Sambit Patra told a press conference here.
"It seems that Rahul is incomplete without Mani and Mani is incomplete without Rahul," the BJP leader said.
Describing Aiyer a "man of many controversies", he said that the revocation had exposed the real face of the Congress President, who had then said that the Congress did not support Aiyar's foul language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December 2017.
His remarks came a day after the Congress said it had revoked the suspension of Aiyar from the party following recommendation by its disciplinary committee.
Aiyar was suspended after he used a derogatory word against the Prime Minister ahead of the first phase of Gujarat Assembly elections.
"Just after nine months his revocation has been suspended. The way he has been taken back shows it was only a lip service and the Congress President stands exposed," Patra said, adding that the "party seems to be incomplete without him (Aiyer)".
Recalling Aiyer's 2014 "chaiwala" jibe at Modi, Patra said that Aiyer's comeback is going to cost the Congress dear again in the 2019 elections.
"There will be a repeat of 2014. People of this country do not have an appetite for arrogance nor for the kind of language that some Congressmen have been using, particularly Aiyer," he said.
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Trump confronts South African president over killing of white farmers
Washington, May 21 (AP): President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing his country of failing to address the killing of white farmers.
“People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety," said Trump, who at one point dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to play a video of a communist politician playing a controversial anti-apartheid song that includes lyrics about killing a farmer. "Their land is being confiscated and in many cases they're being killed."
Ramaphosa pushed back against Trump's accusation. The South African leader had sought to use the meeting to set the record straight and salvage his country's relationship with the United States. The bilateral relationship is at its lowest point since South Africa enforced its apartheid system of racial segregation, which ended in 1994.
“We are completely opposed to that,” Ramaphosa said of the behaviour alleged by Trump in their exchange.
Experts in South Africa say there is no evidence of whites being targeted, although farmers of all races are victims of violent home invasions in a country that suffers from a very high crime rate.
