Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Congress’s election manifesto, released a day before, was “a bundle of lies” and every page of the document “reeks of an attempt to break India into pieces”.
PM Modi said, “The same thinking is reflected in the Congress manifesto as was present in the Muslim League at the time of independence.”
PM Modi’s remark came while addressing an election rally in Rajasthan’s Ajmer.
The prime minister alleged that the Congress wanted to impose the ideas of the Muslim League on India.
“The Leftists have taken over whatever was left of this manifesto bearing the stamp of the Muslim League. Today, Congress is left with neither principles nor policies. It seems as if Congress has given everything on contract and has outsourced the entire party,” he said.
PM Modi also stepped up his attack on the Congress over the issue of corruption. He said that the party was trying to save the corrupt.
“Wherever there is Congress, there cannot be any development. The Congress never thought about the poor, marginalised and youths… These people considered looting public money as their ancestral right. In the last 10 years, Modi has provided a permanent cure for the disease,” the prime minister said.
“It can only be said about the Congress – ‘ek to karela, uppar se neem chadha’. It’s a party of dynasties and equally a corrupt party… Modi has pulled down the shutter of their shop of loot. That is why they are in a panic,” he said.
The prime minister reiterated his party’s commitment to building “new India”. PM Modi told the gathering that the decision of the citizens of the country will decide the future for the next hundreds of years.