Vasundhara Raje Faults Rahul Gandhi For Using Nehru’s Gothra 

Rajasthan: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje found an opportunity to take a dig at Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi during her election campaign. Addressing a public rally on Tuesday , Vasudnhara Raje ridiculed Rahul Gandhi for taking the ''Gothra'' of his great grandfather Jawahar Lal Nehru while visiting the Brahma Temple in Pushkar recently.

Gothra or Gothram is a name taken by the people who are descended in an unbroken male line from a common male ancestor. But here Indira Gandhi was the only child of Jawahar Lal Nehru and Kamala Nehru and she married Feroze Gandhi a Parsi and had two children Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi.

She ridiculed Rahul Gandhi saying that he had used Nehru's Gothra , instead he should have taken his grandfather Feroze Gandhi's or his father Rajiv Gandhi's name.

Interestingly the priests in the Brahma temple in Pushkar revealed that during the prayer rituals Rahul Gandhi said that he was a Kashmiri Brahmin and his Gothra was ''Dattatreya ''.

Meanwhile, BJP national president Amit Shah, on Tuesday addressed two public gatherings in Jalore and Sirohi in Rajasthan slamming the Congress of playing caste politics and trying to raise questions about Prime Minister's father.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was in Nizamabad on Tuesday, criticised Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao saying that he was walking in the footsteps of Congress. The Prime Minister was addressing a public meeting in Nizamabad, his first in Telangana ahead of the upcoming elections and also took names of the TRS and Congress terming them as a family rule.

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