RAICHUR: Attacking the Congress and Janata Dal-Secular (JDS) ahead of Karnataka Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is seeking votes for development while the Congress is seeking votes in the name of retirement and the JD(S) to ensure the political existence of its family.
Addressing a public meeting at Sindhanur, PM Modi said, “BJP is the only party which has the roadmap of development. The double engine has the resolve and the power”. He said the only goal and resolution of the BJP is to make Karnataka the No. 1 State in the country. “Only the double engine government of the BJP can ensure true development”, he said.
“Interestingly, BJP is asking for votes in order to bring development in Karnataka and Congress is asking for votes in the name of retirement. The JD(S), on the other hand, is asking for votes to ensure the political existence of its family”, PM Modi said.
He said, “The biggest cheating, Congress and JD(S) governments have done is with the villages of Karnataka, the farmers of Karnataka. Right since Independence, Congress had been looting the country, had been blocking the ways furnishing development to the villages of the country”.
Every BJP worker, the PM said, has stood like a rock in front of the “appeasement politics” of Congress and JD(S). “Congress-JD(S) never paid attention to the real needy due to appeasement policy. The problems of Lingayat, Banjara, Lambani Samaj and Kurba community were also pending for years. For the first time, the BJP government gave the identity of villages to their settlements. Hakku patras were given to thousands of Banjara families. This has given confidence to every section of the society that BJP will solve their problems too. Today, the appeasement of Congress has lost to the gratification of BJP”.
He said the Congress has neither any issue related to development nor any vision. “Not only me, but the whole country is wondering about the way Congress has been behaving. Everyone is feeling ashamed of the activities of the Congress, the language of the party’s leaders, their words, their ego…everything has been absolutely awful”, Modi said.
The Prime Minister’s remarks came in the backdrop of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s “venomous snake” remark on PM Modi. He said, “Whenever there is a crisis in the country, the leaders of Congress and JD(S) have done politics on that crisis also. Nowadays, civil war is going on in Sudan. There is hue and cry. We are working day and night to bring back each and every Indian safely, but Congress leaders did politics on this too and provoked many families”.
“Congress cheated farmers in the name of providing waivers whereas the BJP ensured welfare for farmers through excellent initiatives like PM KISAN Yojana. You have seen the ‘Corruption Kaal’ of Congress, now you are seeing the ‘Amrit Kaal’ under the BJP,” PM Modi said.
Prime Ministers said the BJP government has opened around 9,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras in the country which provide affordable and quality medicines to people. This very initiative of the BJP has saved the poor and middle-class people of the country from spending Rs 20,000 crore annually, he said.
Earlier in the day, PM Modi, held another election campaign rally in Chitradurga on Tuesday where he lambasted the Congress over the issue of security and said that the party has had a “history of appeasement of terrorists”. (ANI)