Congress Recordsdata Grievance After BJP Calls Manifesto “Muslim League Imprint”

The Congress launched its 2024 Lok Sabha election manifesto on Friday (File).

New Delhi:

The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering exchanged sharp assaults Monday over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Muslim League imprint” and “bundle of lies” jibe at his rival’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha election.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has led the fightback – he stated the BJP is conscious it’s going to lose this election and is performing out of concern – and the get together has filed a criticism with the Election Fee.

On Saturday, whereas addressing an election rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, the Prime Minister declared the Congress’ manifesto “utterly bears the imprint of the Muslim League”.

“Congress issued a bundle of lies in its manifesto… each web page reeks of makes an attempt to tear India aside. It displays the ideas the Muslim League had earlier than independence,” the PM had stated.

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He repeated that declare at a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar this morning, after which BJP President JP Nadda stated, “Congress has been repeatedly rejected however they’re insistent on politics of appeasement. I noticed the manifesto and was stunned. Is it their manifesto or that of the Muslim League…”

A number of hours after that Congress retaliated – by submitting one criticism with the Election Fee in opposition to Mr Modi and one other in opposition to Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar (the BJP’s candidate for Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram) for offering “false info” in his election affidavit.

“We now have raised many points… together with how the Prime Minister referred to our manifesto as a “copy of the Muslim League” and about Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s election affidavits,” the Congress’ Pawan Khera informed reporters. Mr Khera and different prime leaders met the ballot panel this afternoon.

The “Muslim League imprint” jab additionally drew a fierce retort from Mr Kharge, who attacked the Prime Minister and House Minister Amit Shah for “spreading falsehood”.

In a powerful swipe on the BJP and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he stated “everybody is aware of how (Syama) Prasad Mookerjee “shaped his governments in Bengal, Sindh, and NWFP (North West Frontier Province) within the Nineteen Forties in coalition with the Muslim League”.

“Modi-Shah’s political and ideological ancestors supported the British and Muslim League in opposition to the Indians within the freedom battle…” Mr Kharge posted on X.

Modi-Shah’s political and ideological ancestors supported the British and Muslim League in opposition to the Indians within the Freedom Battle.

Even right now, they’re invoking the Muslim League in opposition to the ‘Congress Nyay Patra’ guided and formed in line with the aspirations, wants and…

— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) April 8, 2024

“Modi-Shah’s ideological ancestors opposed Gandhi’s name for Give up India in 1942, which was chaired by Maulana Azad. There’s a stink of RSS in Modiji‘s speeches… BJP’s electoral graph is plunging day-to-day. Due to this fact RSS has began remembering its finest buddy – the Muslim League!” Mr Kharge stated.

Earlier, too, after the PM’s preliminary jibe, the Congress had stated he “doesn’t know his historical past”.

The Congress identified that Jana Sangh founder and BJP ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a part of a coalition authorities in Bengal with the Muslim League within the early Nineteen Forties.

“The Prime Minister doesn’t know his historical past. It was, actually, none aside from Mookerjee, the president of the Hindu Mahasabha then, who was himself a part of the coalition authorities in Bengal with the Muslim League… It’s the BJP, not the Congress, that believes in and practices the politics of divisiveness,” Congress Common Secretary Jairam Ramesh was quoted as saying by information company PTI.

The part of the manifesto – launched Friday – that has sparked this row is a assure to extend reservation for marginalised teams, together with Dalits, previous the Supreme Courtroom’s 50 per cent cap.

“The Muslim League talked about reservation on foundation of faith in 1929… Congress is repeating the identical factor. The way in which there may be speak of reservation on foundation of faith and promise of reservation past 50 per cent… who’s to be benefitted, Congress ought to make it clear,” Mr Nadda stated.

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The Congress manifesto additionally focuses on job creation and infrastructure growth, and makes a number of different guarantees, together with guaranteeing MSP, or minimal assist value, to protesting farmers and direct money transfers to ladies heads of under poverty line households.

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