Rahul Gandhi goes fishing in Kerala, lands new controversy

Rather than landing any fish, Rahul Gandhi was caught in a net on the shore when he once again expressed his desire to create a Fisheries ministry. Except that it already exists.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi went fishing in the waters of the Arabian Sea with a group of fishermen in Kerala, but the trip didn't yield any fish but controversy.
 

Dressed in a blue shirt and trousers, Rahul hopped on to a boat at Thangasseri in Kollam.
 

Photographs showed Rahul working furiously at the nets along with the fishermen. The effort though did not yield any fish.

Rather than landing any fish, Rahul Gandhi was caught in a net on the shore when he once again expressed his desire to create a Fisheries ministry. Except that it already exists.  
 

Rahul Gandhi's gaffes at public forum are becoming hard for the party spokespersons to defend, especially when he repeats the same blunders with a span of a week.  
 

Days after being fact-checked in Puducherry by the media and lampooned by ministers of the Narendra Modi government for claiming that no fisheries ministry existed at the Centre, Rahul Gandhi has gone ahead and repeated the claim.

Addressing fishermen along Kerala's Thangasseri Beach, Rahul Gandhi once again displayed his ignorance when he told the audience that the first thing he would get done is to have a ministry dedicated to the fishermen of this country.
 

Claiming that farmers have a ministry in Delhi while fishermen do not, the Wayanad MP once again ignored the existence of a ministry for fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying.
 

The ministry was established in May 2019 and the portfolio is managed by Giriraj Singh.

The BJP slammed the Congress leader for trying to create a north-south divide. At a public gathering in Trivandrum yesterday, Rahul said that when for the first 15 years he was an MP in the north, he had got used to a different type of politics.
 

Rahul further said that for him, coming to Kerala was very refreshing as he realised that people are interested in issues and not just superficially but going into detail in issues.
 

Reacting to Rahul's fisheries ministry claim, Amethi MP Smriti Irani said that the Congress leader is trying to insult the intelligence of the people, and the people of Kerala will see through it.