Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. (Picture: PTI/File)
Kharge’s remarks got here in a letter to PM Modi through which he rebutted the assault and expenses levelled in opposition to his occasion within the PM’s letter to NDA candidates after the 2nd section of the Lok Sabha polls
In a scathing assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday mentioned when the elections are over, folks will solely bear in mind him because the PM who indulged in ”divisive and communal speeches full of lies” to keep away from an inevitable defeat. Kharge urged the prime minister to hunt votes on the efficiency of his authorities during the last ten years as an alternative of indulging in ”hate speeches”.
The Congress president made the remarks in a letter to Prime Minister Modi through which he rebutted the assault and expenses levelled in opposition to his occasion within the PM’s letter to NDA candidates after the second section of the Lok Sabha polls. Prime Minister Modi has requested the BJP-led NDA candidates within the Lok Sabha polls to unfold consciousness amongst voters concerning the Congress’s intention to grab ”reservation from SC, ST and OBC communities and provides it away to their vote financial institution”.
In a private letter written to them, Modi additionally accused the Congress and its allies of getting divisive and discriminatory motives, despite the fact that reservation on the premise of faith is unconstitutional. Writing to Modi, Kharge mentioned, ”I noticed the letter written by you to all of the NDA candidates about what they should talk to the voters. From the tone and content material of the letter it appears that there’s a lot of desperation and fear in you which of them is main you to make use of language that doesn’t go well with the workplace of the Prime Minister.” ”The letter makes it appear to be the lies in your speeches usually are not having the impact you meant and now you need your candidates to amplify your lies. Repeating a lie a thousand occasions won’t make it the reality,” he mentioned.
The Congress chief mentioned the voters are clever sufficient to learn and perceive by themselves what the Congress has written in its manifesto and what ensures it has promised. ”Our ensures are so easy and clear, that we don’t have to elucidate it to them. To your profit, I’ll reiterate them right here,” Kharge mentioned in his letter and elaborated on the occasion’s Yuva Nyay, Nari Nyay, Kisan Nyay, Shramik Nyay and Hissedari Nyay.
”We have now heard you and the Residence Minister say that Congress is practising appeasement politics. The one appeasement coverage that we have now seen within the final 10 years is the appeasement of Chinese language by you and your ministers. Even right now, you refuse to name China as ’Ghuspaithiye’, as an alternative on June 19, 2020, you mentioned ’Na Koi Ghusa Hai, Na Hello Koi Ghus Aaya hai’, insulting the supreme sacrifice of 20 Indian troopers in Galwan,” the Congress chief mentioned. ”Your public ’Clear Chit’ to China, has weakened India’s case and made it extra belligerent. Whilst tensions escalate as a result of repeated Chinese language transgressions and development of navy infrastructure close to LAC in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Uttarakhand, the imports of Chinese language items to India has elevated by 54.76 per cent up to now 5 years alone and has crossed USD 101 billion in 2023-24,” he mentioned.
Noting that the PM in his letter to NDA candidates had claimed that reservation can be taken away from SC, ST and OBC and given to the Congress’ votebank, Kharge mentioned, ”Our votebank is each Indian — the poor, the marginalised, the ladies, the aspirational youth, the labour class, the Dalits and the Adivasis. Everybody is aware of it’s the RSS and BJP who opposed reservations at each stage since 1947.” ”Your leaders have overtly spoken about it. You want to make clear why you might be against reservation to SCs, STs and OBCs on the premise of their inhabitants as per Article 16 of our Structure,” Kharge mentioned. ”In your letter, you’ve got mentioned folks’s hard-earned cash can be snatched and given away. I want to take this chance to request you to direct your occasion to return the Rs 10 crore that had been swindled from the poor Dalit farmers in Gujarat and given as electoral bonds to BJP,” Kharge mentioned.
He accused the BJP of amassing Rs 8,250 crore via the ”unlawful and unconstitutional” Electoral Bonds. He mentioned Modi’s letter ”lies” that Congress desires to deliver Inheritance Tax when it’s a former BJP Finance Minister and BJP occasion leaders who’ve repeatedly talked about they need Inheritance Tax.
”I see out of your letter that you’re nervous by the low turnout of voters within the first two phases of the elections. It exhibits individuals are not keen about your insurance policies or your marketing campaign speeches. This isn’t due to the summer time warmth, however as a result of the poor have been burnt by your insurance policies,” the Congress chief mentioned. Kharge claimed the prime minister was not interested by speaking concerning the ever widening inequality, unemployment and unprecedented worth rise, that has effects on the folks.
”You aren’t interested by speaking concerning the rising atrocities on girls by your leaders,” he mentioned in his letter to Modi. The Congress’ manifesto speaks of ’Nyay’ and the way it will deliver progress for all sections of the society, Kharge mentioned.
”It’s higher because the prime minister in the event you search votes on the efficiency of your authorities during the last ten years as an alternative of indulging in hate speeches. The Congress Celebration want to problem you or anybody you depute to debate with us on our manifesto and the factors you’ve got made,” he mentioned. ”As I discussed in my earlier letter, when the elections are over, folks will solely bear in mind you because the prime minister who indulged in divisive and communal speeches full of lies to keep away from an inevitable defeat,” Kharge mentioned.
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