Nobody more Mumbaikar than me: Piyush Goyal on opposition's outsider tag
Piyush Goyal, who is the BJP's candidate from Mumbai North, on Wednesday hit out at leaders of opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) for labelling him as an outsider, saying they are «helpless» and making ridiculous arguments. «There can be nobody more Mumbaikar than me,» Goyal told PTI during a road show here in response to questions on the «outsider» barb hurled at him by the opposition.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut and Congress leader Varsha Gaikwad, who dubbed Goyal as an «outsider», had said voters of Mumbai North would send «Pedder Road's parcel back to Pedder Road» in the Lok Sabha elections for the parliamentary constituency on May 20. Goyal had mentioned his residential address as Malabar Hill, a locality in the vicinity of Pedder Road, an affluent neighbourhood in South Mumbai.
«That is a very ridiculous argument. Not even worth responding to. I am a born Mumbaikar. Lived in Mumbai all my life, worked in Mumbai all my life,» Goyal said.
«It is a very facile and stupid argument. Have you heard anyone say I am a Uttar Mumbaikar (North Mumbaikar)?
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