TIL Desk/National/Ahmedabad/ Continuing his scathing attacks on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has termed the party as “an empire” that can only be ruled by one single family. He also said that the Congress “disliked Gujarat and hated it” and so the people of Gujarat should “punish” the Congress.
Modi, on the second day of his two-day visit to poll-bound Gujarat, addressing a massive crowd at Malanpada in Dharampur, a Congress bastion, said: “The Congress dynasty which has reigned in Uttar Pradesh since five decades, have we ever maligned them, insulted them? Insulted other states? But not a single day passes when every Congress leader curses Gujarat. What is our fault? They cursed Sardar Patel. What was his fault? That he worked for the good of the country?”
Continuing in the same vein, Modi said, “Indira Gandhi had our Morarji Desai jailed for months. Why such animosity for Gujarat? Gujarat should teach them a lesson that they stop insulting Gujarat. Gujarat has never been on anybody’s mercy.”
Speaking about the election for Congress president, the Prime Minister said, “Congress has now abandoned all shame. Such persons (Rahul) who have been charged by the court, who is on bail, such persons whom we would not entrust the president post of a district, is now being given the president’s post in the party. What kind of culture prevails in Congress?”
