PTI

Ahmedabad, November 28

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused Congress of enjoying vote financial institution politics over terrorism, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday stated his celebration had sacrificed two prime ministers within the struggle in opposition to terrorism.

Kharge questioned whether or not any chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had fought for the liberty of the nation.

“We have done the work to fight against terrorists. To maintain peace in the country, we have sacrificed our leaders. Indira Gandhi sacrificed her life to keep the country united. Rajiv Gandhi was martyred for the unity of the country. Is there a leader in the BJP who at least fought for the freedom of the country?” Kharge requested.

Addressing a rally in Kheda in poll-bound Gujarat on Sunday, the Prime Minister had stated Congress views terrorism from the prism of the vote financial institution”. He additionally stated, “terrorism was not over yet and the politics of the Congress has also not changed”.

“Here (in Congress), we have lost our two famous and world-respected prime ministers to strengthen and unite the country. This is an election of the state Assembly and not of Parliament. We are here before you with the issues affecting the state. It is better if he (Modi) talks about the successes and failures of the state,” Kharge stated.

On the BJP’s ballot promise of implementing the Uniform Civil Code in Gujarat, Khrage stated it was an try to divide society and create controversy for votes.

“They (BJP) are provoking Congress and other leaders to speak up and get angry. Their aim is to provoke us and divide society, but we are not going to fall into their trap,” he stated.

Slamming Modi for searching for votes in his title and claiming solely he contributed to the progress of Gujarat as if there have been no leaders earlier than him, Kharge stated the Prime Minister retains speaking concerning the Congress has completed nothing previously 70-odd years.

“If any party built the country in 70 years, it was Congress,” Kharge stated, including, not like Modi, he doesn’t take credit score for the a number of thousand crore price of tasks sanctioned when he was Union Minister.

Attacking the BJP’s ‘Gujarat model’ of growth, the Congress president stated there have been 5 lakh vacancies in authorities departments, together with that of 28,000 academics.

“The state’s debt is rising sharply. When we went out of power, we left a debt of Rs 10,000 crore. Today it has swelled to Rs 3.40 lakh crore, and is going to increase further to Rs 4.60 lakh crore during the current fiscal,” Kharge stated.

“The so-called “Gujarat model” is about 4 lakh COVID-19 deaths. They modified three chief ministers in six years. If you alter three CMs, it implies that you probably did nothing right here. Otherwise, there was no purpose to alter them,” Kharge stated.

He expressed confidence in Congress profitable the Gujarat elections.

“The BJP has understood the people of Gujarat are deciding in favour of Congress. Despite being in power for 27 years, it has become necessary for the BJP to bring in the prime minister, Union home minister, four to five chief ministers to make inflammatory speeches to mislead people,” he claimed.

Gujarat will see two-phase Assembly polls on December 1 and 5, and the counting of votes will happen on December 8.

In the 2017 Assembly polls, the Congress had gained 77 seats within the 182-member Assembly limiting BJP to 99.