Narendra Modi urges supporters to take 'main bhi chowkidar' promise, draws ridicule from Rahul

New Delhi, Mar 16 Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday urged his supporters to take the 'main bhi chowkidar' (I also am watchman) vow and said he was not the only one in the battle against unite and social disasters, drawing ridicule from Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

"Your Chowkidar is standing firm and serving the country. Be that as it may, I am not the only one. Everybody who is battling debasement, soil, social shades of malice is a Chowkidar. Everybody buckling down for the advancement of India is a Chowkidar. Today, every Indian is stating #MainBhiChowkidar," the PM composed on Twitter.

He also presented a short video to drive home his message.

Before long, Gandhi taunted Modi and tweeted, "Guarded tweet Mr Modi! You feeling a little remorseful today" while a labeling an image of Modi alongside businesspeople, for example, Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, Anil Ambani and Gautam Adani.

The Congress president prior supposed that Modi just served the interests of his industrialist-friends.

Modi has regularly depicted himself as a "chowkidar" who might neither permit defilement nor get ruined himself.

Gandhi has been over and again flinging the "chowkidar chor hai" (guardian is the cheat) correspond at Modi to guarantee anomalies and preference in the Rafale fighter jet deal, a charge the BJP-drove government has rejected.

Congress chief representative Randeep Surjewala hit back at Modi blaming him for being the "main chowkidar who is a thief".

"One who wears a suit worth Rs 10 lakh and who helps Bank fraudsters Modi-Mehul-Mallya, one who wasts open cash to the tune of Rs 52,000 crore for his very own propaganda, one who spends Rs 2,010 crore to make a trip to 84 nations on people's cash and one who helped in robbery of Rs 30,000 crore in rafale jet deal, only one Chowkidar is a thief," he said in a tweet in Hindi.