Urban Naxals running Congress: PM Modi opens BJP’s MP campaign with scathing attack on Congress
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Congress party, likening it to a rusted piece of iron that has lost its ability to understand national ambitions and fathom the future.
Virtually launching the poll campaign for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections while addressing a gathering of BJP workers at the “Karyakarta Mahakumbh” in Bhopal, PM Modi said that a victory for the Congress could take MP back to the ‘BIMARU’ state that it was before the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power.
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Making a strong pitch for the return of the BJP to power in the state, PM Modi said that the path of progress that the BJP has laid cannot be sustained unless the BJP returns in government. He also cited instances of neighbouring Rajasthan and Maharashtra, claiming that the Congress had taken the state into depths of corruption and misgovernance.
The Prime Minister further said that the Congress is no longer run by its leaders but by a group of Urban Naxals who have been given the contract for running party affairs.
“Congress has lost all its willpower. The grassroots leaders of Congress have been sitting quietly with their mouths shut. First, Congress was ruined, then they became bankrupt and now they have given their contract to someone else. The party is no longer being run by its leaders. It has outsourced everything, from slogans to policies, and this contract is with some urban Naxals,” the Prime Minister said.
Taking a dig at the Congress leadership, the Primem Minister further said that the grand old party was ignorant towards the plight of the poor. The lives of the poor, PM Modi said, mean nothing more to the Congress than “adventure tourism” and “opportunity to shoot videos”.
“A poor man’s life doesn’t matter for Congress leaders born with silver spoons. For them, it is adventure tourism… For Congress leaders, poor persons’ colonies have become locations to shoot videos. They have done this in the past too… BJP government is showing the developed and grand face of the country to the world,” the PM said.
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Highlighting the difference between the BJP and the Congress, the Prime Minister said that the while his party made a historic decision by getting the Women’s Reservation Bill passed in Parliament, the Opposition tried to block the appointment of the first woman President of India.
He said that the youth of MP have been lucky to never have witnessed the darkness of the Congress era. “The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has completed almost 20 years. This means the youths who will be voting for the first time in the upcoming elections, have only seen the BJP government. The present youth of Madhya Pradesh are lucky that they have not witnessed the bad governance of the Congress government… Congress turned the state into ‘Bimaru Rajya’… BJP has tried to take the state to a new level with new energy… Youths here have only seen the development work and good governance of the BJP government,” he said.
The ‘Karyakarta Mahakumbh’ event was organised to mark the birth anniversary of Jana Sangh co-founder Deendayal Upadhyaya. As per the BJP, around 10 lakh party workers gathered at Bhopal’s Jamboree Maidan where Modi delivered his address on the party’s “mantra of victory” for the coming Assembly elections. Earlier this month, the BJP launched five yatras that covered over 10,000 km.
Today’s visit was Modi’s third to the state in the past 45 days, indicating the BJP’s attempt to retain power in the state by leveraging the PM’s popularity.