Rahul Gandhi has addressed the controversy that erupted after a video of him offering biscuits to a dog during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Jharkhand.
The BJP tweeted the now viral video of Rahul Gandhi and said that when the dog did not eat the biscuit offered to it by the Congress leader, he gave it to one of his supporters.
'Just a few days ago, Congress President Kharge ji compared the party's booth agents to dogs and here Rahul Gandhi is feeding biscuits to a dog during his visit and when the dog did not eat, he gave the same biscuits to his worker. If a party whose president and crown prince treats its party workers like dogs, then it is natural for such a party to disappear,' BJP's IT cell head Amit Malviya tweeted.
Rahul Gandhi during a press conference said that the man in the video is the dog's owner and he had given him the biscuit so that he could feed the dog.
'The dog was nervous, shivering and when I tried to feed it, the dog got scared. So I gave biscuits to the dog's owner and the dog ate them from his hand. I don't understand what's the issue with it,' Rahul Gandhi said.
The video tweeted by Congress shows Rahul Gandhi only offering the biscuit to the dog, however, another video tweeted by the BJP shows the politician giving the biscuit to a man after the animal refused to eat it.