Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh additionally slammed Modi, saying that as a substitute of answering a single query on points associated to youth, ladies, farmers, Dalits, and backwards, the prime minister “shamelessly lied and made insulting statements in his rallies in Rajasthan to divert consideration from the actual points”.
“What we do know is that the primary section has been very unhealthy for them (BJP). However maybe the scenario is way worse than what we estimate. Evidently the Prime Minister has misplaced his psychological steadiness because of the frustration and disappointment of shedding energy,” Ramesh mentioned in a put up in Hindi on X.
“Keep in mind: ‘BJP dakshin mein saaf, uttar mein half’ (BJP worn out within the South and its tally half within the North),” the Congress chief mentioned.
Congress’ media and publicity division head Pawan Khera accused the PM of “mendacity”.
“We problem the Prime Minister to indicate if Hindu-Muslim is written wherever in our manifesto. This type of shallow mindset is in your political values,” Khera mentioned.
“Now we have talked about justice for youth, ladies, farmers, tribals, center class and employees. Do you could have any objection to this additionally?” he mentioned, slamming the PM.
In his remarks in Rajasthan, Modi mentioned, “The Congress manifesto says they’ll calculate the gold with moms and sisters, get details about it after which distribute that property.
They’ll distribute it to whom – Manmohan Singh’s authorities had mentioned that Muslims have the primary proper on the nation’s belongings.”
“Earlier, when their (Congress) authorities was in energy, they’d mentioned that Muslims have the primary proper on the nation’s belongings. This implies to whom will this property be distributed? It is going to be distributed amongst those that have extra youngsters,” the prime minister mentioned.
The Congress has asserted that its manifesto doesn’t speak about “redistribution” and that it favours a “complete socio-economic caste census”.