Ajay Bharat, Atal BJP: Narendra Modi sounds war cry. tears into opposition

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Ajay Bharat, Atal BJP: Narendra Modi sounds war cry, tears into opposition

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a hard-hitting attack on Congress, saying it had failed in office as well as in the opposition and was increasingly relying on untruths in its battle against his government.Modi said Congress and other opposition parties had based their fight against BJP on "speaking lies, planting lies and repeating lies everyday". The PM also hit out at moves for opposition unity, saying the proposed " mahagathbandhan lacked leadership, ideology and any real unity or common purpose."The opposition does not want to fight the election on ideology or the work done as it lacks the courage to do so," he told the BJP national executive here on Sunday.Elaborating on the opposition's "compulsions", he said "opposition unity (mahagathbandhan) is being talked about, but parties who do not see eye to eye, can't stand next to each other, are trying to come together".Mahagathbandhan is clueless about leadership, unclear on strategy and nurture corrupt intent (netritwa ka thikana nahin, niti aspasth, niyat bhrasth)," according to law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad who briefed the media about Modi's speech. Modi held out a slogan of "Ajeya Bharat, Atal BJP (undefeatable India, resolute BJP)" that Prasad elaborated as "a victorious India that cannot be subjugated by anyone and a party which is committed to its principles" as the party prepares to go into campaign mode for approaching assembly elections and Lok Sabha polls early next year.Without naming Rahul Gandhi , Modi said the Congress president's leadership credentials were being refuted. "Nobody is ready to accept Congress's leadership... even smaller parties refuse to accept. Some of them consider the Congress leadership a liability. Within Congress too, the situation is such that there is a reluctance in accepting his leadership," Prasad quoted the PM has saying.The reference to "smaller parties" seemed to be to TRS chief and Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao's disparaging comment about Gandhi a few days ago as well as the 'federal front' that has seen regional parties reluctant to cede the lead role to Congress. The parties standing in opposition to BJP were coming with a new lie every day and the challenge before the party was to counter the falsehoods and convey the achievements.