Ravi Kishan took a jibe at Rahul, said – I need the formula to make gold from potatoes!

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Ravi Kishan on Saturday mocked the allegations of phone tapping of Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, saying that his phone is being tapped to know how he will make gold from potatoes.

This comes a day after Rahul Gandhi repeated his one-on-one debate challenge to Prime Minister Modi, alleging that his phone was being tapped at his behest.

Speaking to news agency IANS, Ravi Kishan said, “We were tapping his mobile phone because we really wanted to know how he was going to make gold from potatoes. Otherwise, the entire formula to do so would have been with Rahul Gandhi.”

Taking aim at Rahul Gandhi, the BJP MP said, “We also have fields and we also have to make gold from potatoes, that is why his phone is being tapped, as he thinks, because the formula to make gold from potatoes is in his phone.”

Gorakhpur MP Ravi Kishan was referring to a comment made by Rahul Gandhi in 2017 during a public speech in Gujarat.

Meanwhile, BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also targeted Rahul Gandhi over his allegations and called Congress and the Gandhi family the 'James Bond of espionage'.

Speaking to IANS, he said, “A party and a family which has been the 'James Bond' of espionage, they will always link everything to espionage.

This is the same party and family which had put the phones of its own Home Minister and Finance Minister under surveillance 12 years ago when they were in power and when they were caught they said that it was just a piece of 'chewing gum' which had got stuck. He truly is the ‘James Bond’ of espionage.”

However, Congress spokesperson Surendra Rajput said, “Bharatiya Janata Party should clearly tell whether phone tapping is taking place or not. If Rahul Gandhi is giving false statements then there should be an investigation against him. To bring out the truth, a sitting judge of the Supreme Court should investigate the matter.”

“The investigation should reveal whether the government had purchased Pegasus and whether phones of opposition leaders are being tapped, as alleged by Rahul Gandhi,” he told IANS.