NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday latched on to veteran chief Mani Shankar Aiyar‘s remarks on former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to assault the Congress.
BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya shared an excerpt of Aiyar’s interview on X, and stated: “Let the veil be stripped”.

Within the video, the Congress chief stated that Rajiv Gandhi struggled academically and plenty of questioned his competency to turn into the Prime Minister.
“When Rajiv Gandhi turned the Prime Minister, I believed, how may an individual who was an airline pilot and had failed twice turn into the Prime Minister? I studied with him at Cambridge, the place he had failed. Failing at Cambridge College could be very tough as a result of the college tries to make sure that everybody at the least passes. However regardless of that, Rajiv Gandhi failed,” Aiyar stated.
“After that, he went to Imperial Faculty in London, and he failed there as nicely. Then I believed, how can such an individual turn into the Prime Minister of the nation?” he added.
This comes after Aiyar had claimed that his profession was each made and unmade by the Gandhis.
Throughout an interview with PTI, he talked about that other than one event, he had restricted significant interactions with Rahul Gandhi, and he had solely frolicked with Priyanka Gandhi on two events.
“For 10 years, I used to be not given a possibility to satisfy Sonia Gandhi one-on-one. I used to be not given a possibility, besides as soon as, of spending any significant time with Rahul Gandhi. And I’ve not frolicked with Priyanka besides on one event, no, two events. She comes on the cellphone to me, so I’m in contact with them. So, the irony of my life is that my political profession was made by the Gandhis and unmade by the Gandhis,” he instructed PTI.
Aiyar was an in depth aide of Rajiv Gandhi when he entered politics. His internal circle additionally included his cousin Arun Nehru, good friend Arun Singh and Sam Pitroda.
This isn’t the primary time that Mani Shankar Aiyar’s remarks have led to controversy.
Aiyar triggered a row when he stated that the Chinese language in 1962 “allegedly invaded India”.
In 2017, throughout marketing campaign for the Gujarat meeting elections, Aiyar had stoked a serious controversy and brought on appreciable harm to the electoral prospects of the grand outdated social gathering after he used objectionable phrases towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Congress reacted by suspending Aiyar from the social gathering. Two years later in 2019, forward of the Lok Sabha elections, Aiyar defiantly recalled his remarks towards Modi and tried to justify it.
Earlier in 2014, Aiyar had made a chaiwala jibe at Narendra Modi, who was then the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.