Mallikarjun Kharge, PM Narendra Modi: Poors Have Extra Youngsters, Why Do You Solely Speak About Muslims: M Kharge To PM

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Janjgir-Champa (Chhattisgarh):

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “solely speaking about Muslims”, and mentioned the poor have extra kids due to their financial situations.

PM Modi was annoyed after sensing that the opposition’s INDIA bloc was heading for a majority, and therefore he’s now speaking about “Mangalsutra and Muslims”, Mr Kharge claimed at a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champa district.

Campaigning for Shivkumar Dahariya, Congress’ candidate from Janjgir-Champa Lok Sabha constituency, he additionally mentioned the BJP was searching for to win greater than 400 Lok Sabha seats not for the welfare of the poor however to remove their rights.

“We’re heading for a majority, that’s the reason he (Modi) now talks about ‘Mangalsutra’ and Muslims. He says we’ll steal your wealth and provides it to those that have extra kids. Poor folks all the time have extra kids. Do solely Muslims have them?” he requested.

He himself has 5 kids however he was the one son of his mother and father, the Congress president mentioned, including that his mom, sister and uncle died when their home was set on hearth.

Solely his father and he had been left, and “My father instructed me I’m his solely son and he needed to see my kids,” Mr Kharge mentioned.

“Poor folks have (extra) kids as they don’t have wealth. However why do you (Modi) solely hold speaking about Muslims? Muslims belong to this nation,” he mentioned, asking folks to not get misled as “we have now to construct the nation by taking everybody collectively, not like them (BJP) by breaking it.”

Throughout an election rally in Rajasthan, PM Modi had mentioned that if Congress got here to energy it will redistribute folks’s wealth to those that have extra kids and to the infiltrators. He had additionally cited former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s comment that Muslims had the primary declare on the nation’s assets.

On PM Modi’s declare that Congress was planning to grab folks’s wealth together with even ladies’s mangalsutra, Mr Kharge requested, “We dominated the nation for 55 years, however did we snatch anybody’s ‘mangalsutra’ or misuse the ED (Enforcement Directorate), IT (Revenue Tax) to place folks behind bars?”

The prime minister was talking lies and deceptive folks, he alleged, claiming that PM Modi speaks about “Hindu-Muslim” (points) even the place Muslims have zero presence.

“These days he’s saying Congress needs to do an X-ray of gold in each home and land and it’ll not go away even your `mangalsutra’. Now we have mentioned we need to conduct a caste census to evaluate the situations of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and backward courses in order that their scenario could be improved, however he made enjoyable of it,” Mr Kharge mentioned.

If such a primary minister dominated for 5 extra years, the nation could be destroyed, the Congress president mentioned.

“He (Modi) says ‘sabka sath, sabka vikas’. He takes the help of everybody however by no means does their ‘vikas’ (growth). He does their ‘satyanash’ (destruction). He carried out demonetisation and didn’t help anybody through the Covid (epidemic),” Mr Kharge added.

Those that got “injections” (apparently referring to vaccines) through the COVID-19 epidemic had been nonetheless going through well being issues, and laboratories have reported that coronary heart assault circumstances elevated in India on account of some defect within the medication, however the Union authorities doesn’t have any reply on this concern, Mr Kharge claimed.

“This election is being fought to maintain India united and save the Structure and democracy. Modi and his followers say, time and again, give us a 400-plus determine. They’re searching for 400-plus seats not for the welfare of the poor, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and backward folks…They’re searching for it to remove the poor folks’s rights,” he alleged.

The Congress veteran additionally requested why RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat needed to make clear that they weren’t going to vary the Structure or finish reservations if some BJP chief had not talked about such plans earlier.

“He (Modi) compares (himself) with former prime ministers Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Rajiv Gandhi. You don’t stand anyplace of their comparability…They gave large factories and PSUs to the nation, what did you give?” he requested.

Congress received freedom for the nation, Jawaharlal Nehru protected its democracy and Dr B R Ambedkar drafted Structure, Mr Kharge mentioned, including, “Modi ji, you might be alive and have become prime minister due to Congress which saved the Structure, democracy and helped the poor. We launched Inexperienced Revolution and White Revolution.” Polling can be held in Janjgir-Champa on Could 7. 

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