'Non-bulletproof trucks for jawans': Rahul Gandhi's jibe at Modi over VVIP plane

Taking to his Twitter handle, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the central government over the purchase of Rs 8,400 crore VVIP aircraft for PM Modi.

New Delhi: Launching an attack on the Centre over the purchase of two VVIP aircraft, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that soldiers are being sent to become "martyrs in non-bulletproof trucks" while the government has Rs 8,400 crore aircraft for Prime Minister.

"Our jawans are being sent in non-bullet proof trucks to get martyred and for the PM -- Rs 8,400 crore aircraft.... Is this justice?" read Gandhi's tweet roughly translated in English from Hindi.

• हमारे जवानों को नॉन-बुलेट प्रूफ़ ट्रकों में शहीद होने भेजा जा रहा है और PM के लिए 8400 करोड़ के हवाई जहाज़!
  
  क्या यह न्याय है? pic.twitter.com/iu5iYWVBfE

  — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 10, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="

  हमारे जवानों को नॉन-बुलेट प्रूफ़ ट्रकों में शहीद होने भेजा जा रहा है और PM के लिए 8400 करोड़ के हवाई जहाज़!
  
  क्या यह न्याय है? pic.twitter.com/iu5iYWVBfE

  — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 10, 2020

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  हमारे जवानों को नॉन-बुलेट प्रूफ़ ट्रकों में शहीद होने भेजा जा रहा है और PM के लिए 8400 करोड़ के हवाई जहाज़!
  
  क्या यह न्याय है? pic.twitter.com/iu5iYWVBfE

  — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 10, 2020

He also tweeted a video where several purported soldiers, enclosed within a moving vehicle, can be heard discussing how sending people in non-bulletproof trucks was a dangerous prospect.

This is not the first time that Gandhi has brought up the VVIP planes. Last week, Gandhi raked up the purchase of two VVIP aircraft during a rally in Punjab.

"On one hand, PM Modi has bought two aircraft worth Rs 8,000 crores. On the other hand, China is at our borders and our security forces are braving harsh cold to protect our borders," he had said.

Earlier, new plane Air India One equipped with most advanced sophisticated technologies, military defence systems and reconfigured cabin for which will be used to fly President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, landed in India after a 15-hour non-stop journey from Texas (USA) to New Delhi.

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