New Delhi:

Launching a volley in opposition to the Congress with lower than two weeks to go for the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated that the celebration’s manifesto is a bundle of lies and each web page of the doc reeks of makes an attempt to tear India aside.

Addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Ajmer on Saturday – with the Congress additionally holding an occasion in close by Jaipur to “publicly launch” its manifesto – the PM stated that the celebration’s ideas within the manifesto resemble these of the Muslim League through the pre-Independence interval.

“The Congress issued a bundle of lies within the type of its manifesto which has unmasked the celebration. Each web page reeks of makes an attempt to tear India aside. It displays the ideas that the Muslim League had earlier than Independence. The Congress desires to impose the Muslim League’s ideas from that period on the India of immediately. And what’s remaining of the manifesto is dominated by communist and leftist ideas,” PM Modi stated in Hindi.

The Congress has hit again on the PM and stated he “doesn’t know his historical past”.

Claiming that the Congress of immediately is bereft of ideas and insurance policies, the Prime Minister stated it was obvious that the celebration has outsourced every little thing. He then went on to ask whether or not such a celebration might do something that might be within the nation’s curiosity, eliciting a loud “no” from the folks within the viewers.

“In the event you take a look at the manifesto, it’s clear that they need to push India again into the previous century… The Congress has by no means bothered about nari shakti (ladies energy). Generations of ladies have suffered after Independence. Should not a Congress like this be punished? Use your vote on April 19 and punish the Congress,” the PM stated.

Highlighting the schemes for the development of bogs and offering LPG cylinders, faucet water and diet for pregnant ladies, the PM stated his authorities cares not only for ladies however even the infants which can be about to be born.

“My courageous daughters couldn’t be a part of the Military, Modi opened these doorways. I opened the doorways of the Sainik colleges. We ensured six months of maternity depart for girls and in addition handed a regulation for reservation for our moms and daughters in legislatures… I’m proud that girls in our villages, who couldn’t trip cycles, are actually flying drones and ISRO tasks are additionally being dealt with by ladies,” PM Modi stated.

“It’s possible you’ll assume lots has been completed, however let me inform you my mann ki baat. All this was only a trailer, we are going to take our nation ahead a lot additional. Your desires are my dedication. We now have to make India a developed nation by 2047,” he added.

‘Does Not Know His Historical past’

Hitting again on the PM for his remarks, the Congress stated the PM doesn’t know his historical past and identified that Jan Sangh founder BJP ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a part of a coalition authorities in Bengal with the Muslim League within the early Forties.

“The Prime Minister doesn’t know his historical past. It was, in actual fact, none apart from Mookerjee, the president of the Hindu Mahasabha then, who was himself a part of the coalition authorities in Bengal with the Muslim League… It’s the BJP, not the Congress, that believes in and practices the politics of divisiveness,” Congress Basic Secretary Jairam Ramesh was quoted as saying by information company PTI. 

The Congress manifesto, launched in Delhi on Friday, focuses on job creation and infrastructure improvement and in addition has the celebration’s promise of a caste census, which has been a serious focus because the Bihar authorities launched the outcomes of a caste survey final 12 months. The manifesto additionally guarantees a minimal assist value, which has been a key demand of farmers, in addition to common free healthcare. 

Rajasthan will vote in two phases – on April 19 and April 26 – and counting will happen on June 4. The BJP had received 24 of the state’s 25 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, with the remaining constituency going to ally Rashtriya Loktantrik Occasion, and all 25 in 2014.