Satna/Chattarpur/Neemuch, Nov 9 :Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the Congress was an “expert” in reversing the country’s progress and asked voters to keep it away from power for at least 100 years as he accused the party of practising the policy of “divide and rule” and creating new records in corruption.
Continuing his campaign blitz in Madhya Pradesh, where he addressed three rallies in a day for the second day running to bolster the BJP’s polls prospects, Modi spoke about his welfare schemes and touched upon a range of other issues, but remained largely focused on attacking the Congress which is making a renewed bid to come back to power in the state where it lost its government midway.
Speaking at a rally in Chhatarpur ahead of the November 17 assembly polls, he accused the Grand Old Party of ignoring the problems of Madhya Pradesh when it ruled the state.
“The way a vehicle takes us back in the reverse gear, the Congress is also an expert at reverse gear and converting good governance into bad governance,” he maintained.
When it was in power in MP, the party did not do anything to resolve the woes of impoverished Bundelkhand which had a rich heritage of water bodies about 100 years ago, and the people there waited for water for a long time, Modi said.
He asked voters to make the Congress, too, yearn for assuming position of authority by depriving it of power for at least 100 years, so that the country’s oldest political party reforms for good.
“The Congress, filled with the mentality of slavery, neither understood development of the country nor did it have anything to do with the country’s heritage,” Modi said.
The PM said he was happy the children of the poor did not have to sleep hungry during the coronavirus pandemic. “But it is not Modi who deserves credit for it, but all of you. Because it was the power of your vote due to which Modi could feed the poor,” he said.
Mentioning the G-20 meetings held in Chhatarpur, he said for a Congress government, the entire country would have “started and ended in Delhi.” “Schemes used to be announced in Delhi. Big foreign leaders used to come to Delhi.
Big programmes used to take place in Delhi….Whenever Congress leaders took their foreign friends out of Delhi, they showed them India’s poverty. The poor have become a subject of tourism for Congress leaders who were born with golden spoons,” the prime minister said. (PTI)
