Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi made an embarrassing error while posing a question to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Congress leaders, who has been campaigning vigorously in the poll-bound Gujarat, has been demanding answers to several questions from the prime minister and the Centre, reports ANI.
In his social media account, Rahul Gandhi posted a table which had wrong percentage numbers. The table showed how prices of gas cylinders, tomato, onions, milk and diesel have gone up in the past two years. The percentages on the table were inflated by 100 points.
Directly blaming the prime minister for the price rise of essential items, Rahul Gandhi highlighted the difference in rates as they existed in 2014 when general elections were last held, and rates as they exist or prevail now in 2017, reports ANI.
Presenting the data on gas cylinders, Gandhi said the cost of one cylinder in 2014 was Rs 414, whereas in 2017, it had gone up to Rs.742. Thereafter, instead of saying that there had been an increase of 79 per cent, the Congress scion erroneously mentioned in the table that it as a 179 per cent increase.
That was not all! He followed it up by showing in the list that price of pulses had risen by 177 per cent instead of 77 per cent, the price of tomatoes had gone up by 285 per cent instead of 185 per cent, that of onions had gone up by 200 per cent instead of 100 per cent, that of milk had gone up by 131 per cent instead of 31 per cent and the price of diesel had gone up by 113 per cent instead of 13 per cent.
Keeping the Gujarat polls in mind, which presently experts and pundits are saying is running neck-to-neck, Gandhi has been shooting off a series of questions at the prime minister and demanding that he give accountable answers to each one of them.
However, the Congress leader went into the damage control mode immediately, replacing the table later with one that had accurate figures.
