The Congress party has filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for comparing the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections with that of the Muslim League.
The Prime Minister’s remark came during an election rally in Rajasthan’s Ajmer on April 6. Referring to the Congress’ manifesto, PM Modi termed it a “bundle of lies” and said that every page of the document “reeks of an attempt to break India into pieces”.
“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,” the Prime Minister said.
Reacting to the remaks, the Congress party said that the Prime Minister was resorting to the “same cliched Hindu-Mulsim” rhetoric since he was scared of the prospect of the BJP struggling to cross the 180-mark in the coming general elections.
Hitting out at the BJP over the PM’s remarks, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that the “ideological ancestors” of the saffron party supported the British and the Muslim League against Indians in the independence struggle.
“Modi-Shah’s political and ideological ancestors supported the British and the Muslim League against the Indians in the freedom struggle,” Kharge said in a post on X.
“Even today, they are invoking the Muslim League against the ‘Congress Nyay Patra’, guided and shaped according to the aspirations, needs and demands of common Indians,” Kharge added.