It all started when Rahul Gandhi went to pray at the famous Pushkar temple in Rajasthan during his campaigning on Monday and said that he belongs to the Dattatreya gotra.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Rahul Gandhi claimed that his gotra is Dattatreya, triggering potshots by the BJP
- BJP leader Giriraj Singh tweeted a clip from a Bollywood film to pull up Gandhi
- India Today TV traces the bloodline of the Nehru-Gandhi family to decode Gandhi’s gotra
Silly as it may sound, Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s gotra has taken centrestage in the political discourse amid assembly elections in five states.
It all started when Rahul Gandhi went to pray at the famous Pushkar temple in Rajasthan during his campaigning on Monday. The priest who performed the rituals, said, “Rahul Gandhi said that his gotra is Dattatreya. Dattatreya are Kauls and Kauls are Kashmiri Brahmins.”
Soon after this revelation, BJP leaders and supporters began to take potshots at the Congress president questioning his gotra.
Union minister Giriraj Singh tweeted a clipping from the Bollywood film ‘Jolly LLB’, where a Muslim faking as a Brahmin priest is caught lying when asked about his gotra. Thousands of people shared and reacted to this tweet.