Lamenting Congress party links with Muslim League, that was responsible for the partition of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the grand old party’s election manifesto reflects the same thought as that of the Muslim League at the time of the freedom movement and claimed that part of it is dominated by leftists.
Addressing an election rally in Saharanpur, Modi said the opposition alliance was fighting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections just to stop the BJP from winning more than 370 seats, but not to win in the polls. “Yesterday, the kind of election manifesto that was released, it has proved that today’s Congress is completely cut off from the hopes and aspirations of today’s India,” he added.
He said that while Congress is finding it difficult to find candidates to contest from its strong hold constituencies, the Samajwadi Party is changing candidates every hour. “The Congress does not have the courage to field candidates even in those seats which are considered its stronghold,” he added.
Modi also said the Congress, which existed at the time of the freedom movement, has “ended decades ago.”
The prime minister accused that the INDIA bloc has become synonymous with instability and uncertainty and the people of the country were not taking them seriously. He said it is the misfortune of the country that the opposition alliance is talking about fighting against ‘shakti’.
“This is the place of Maa Shakti, this is the place of worshipping Maa Shakti. We are a country which never ignores worshipping Shakti. However, it is the country’s misfortune that people of the INDIA alliance are openly challenging their fight against Shakti,” said PM Modi.
Without taking the names of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Prime Minister Modi said, “You might remember here in Uttar Pradesh that the film featuring two boys (‘do ladke’), which had flopped last time, the film of two boys has been re-released by these people.”
