Rahul Gandhi mistook Mizoram for Manipur; BJP hits out at Congress president, calls him 'ignorant'

The Assembly elections are approaching and both Bhartiya Janta Party and Congress are keeping an eagle eye on each other to not to miss any chance to each other. If one makes mistake, the other one leaves no chance to point it out. Recently an incident happened when Congress chief Rahul Gandhi made a mistake on which BJP jumped to attack him.

Rahul Gandhi shared a post about a Sainik School, that opened its gates to girl students fifty years after its inception, Rahul mistook Mizoram for Manipur.

"Given the chance, there is nothing a girl cannot do. These girls at the Sainik School in Manipur are proof of this. My best wishes to these brave, inspiring children. You are the future of India. You make us all proud," Rahul wrote on Facebook.

Here the question was that The Sainik School in question is however in Mizoram, not in Manipur. However later, Rahul rectified it.

BJP IT head Amit Malviya was quick to use this opportunity to attack Rahul Gandhi. "Rahul Gandhi shares an article on Mizoram and writes Manipur. It is this ignorance about the Northeast that is so problematic!" Malviya wrote on Twitter with a screenshot of Rahul's Facebook post.

"Rahul Gandhi go and write this a hundred times, 'Mizoram and Manipur are two different states in the Northeast of India and I will remember that for the rest of my term as president of the Congress party!" Malviya said in a tweet.

Rahul Gandhi was in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, among other five states that will soon hold assembly elections. He offered prayers at the Mahakaleshwar temple. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra launched a scathing attack on Rahul and asked him about his 'gotra'.

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