‘Cong a vine which has no roots’
NANDED/PARBHANI, Apr 20: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday dubbed the Congress a vine which has no roots or branches and sucks dry those who support it, and asked people to be wary of the opposition alliance in realising the goals of ‘Viksit Bharat’ and ‘Viksit Maharashtra’.
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Modi, who addressed two election rallies in Maharashtra on Saturday – first in Nanded, followed by Parbhani – also said the Congress has accepted its defeat even before the Lok Sabha poll results are out, and took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi, saying that just as he lost from Amethi in 2019, the “Congress’ sahabzade” will lose the Wayanad Parliamentary seat this time.
Both Nanded and Parbhani are located in Marathwada region of the State.
At the Parbhani rally, the PM said the 2024 polls were not just to form the Government, but to make India developed and self-reliant.
“Congress is a vine which doesn’t have roots or branches. It sucks dry those who lend support to it,” Modi said, hitting out at the opposition.
He accused the Congress of partitioning the country and claimed it did not allow the Constitution to be implemented in Kashmir under the pretext of Article 370.
Hitting out at the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in Maharashtra, he said the Congress and the “fake Shiv Sena”, a reference to Shiv Sena (UBT), were busy decorating Yakub Memon’s grave. Memon, a convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, was hanged in 2015
“When the INDI alliance (opposition grouping) was in power, they did not make (people) feel that the Nizam rule had ended, the Razakar mentality was overwhelming here. Their priority was (to decorate) Yakub Memon’s grave,” he said.
Modi urged people to be wary of the INDI alliance in realising the goal of ‘Viksit Bharat’ and ‘Viksit Maharashtra’.
He said the 2024 Lok Sabha polls were all about making India the third-largest economy in the world.
In the last term of his Government, Modi said, people saw the success of Chandrayaan mission and in the next term, 140 crore Indians will witness Gaganyaan’s success.
This is the first election where people are talking about the success of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, from anti-coronavirus vaccine to weapons for the armed forces, he said.
“In only 10 years, the country has traversed a long journey of development,” Modi said.
The PM said when he first contested the Lok Sabha polls in 2014, the talk in the country was about the fear of terror attacks and blasts and the pain of the death of soldiers. “However, the talk was about surgical strikes in the next five years in 2019,” he said.
Modi said he had lived a life of poverty, understood the pains of the poor and stressed that no poor should go through what he had experienced.
At the Nanded rally, he accused the Congress of being a barrier in the path of development and said it it cannot be trusted to work for the country’s progress.
Apparently targeting former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Modi said some INDIA bloc leaders who have been members of the Lok Sabha for several years, have left the Lower House of Parliament and found a seat in the Rajya Sabha as they lack confidence to fight elections.
Referring to Rahul Gandhi, he said, “The Congress’ sahabzade sees a problem in Wayanad. He is waiting for the voting on April 26, after which he and his gang will look for a safe seat because after Amethi, he will have to leave Wayanad as well.”
“Will any voters waste their vote for such people? They will instead vote for ‘Viksit Bharat’. Congres. (PTI)
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