Congress chief says Narendra Modi’s term was filled with unfulfilled promises

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked Delhi Congress workers to ensure victory for the party in all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi and defeat both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

Addressing a booth workers’ convention, Mr. Gandhi made only a fleeting reference to AAP and trained his guns on attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi by saying that “no truth” can come out of Mr. Modi’s mouth and that his term was filled with unfulfilled promises.

“In 2014, Modi ji appealed to the citizens not to make him the Prime Minister, but the chowkidar of the country. Now if you ask anybody on the street, they will tell you ‘chowkdiar chor hai’ as Modi ji has written off bank loans to the tune of ₹3.50 lakh crore for 15 of his industrialist friends, but has announced only ₹3.50 per day for the debt-ridden farmers of the country,” Mr. Gandhi alleged.

Bringing up the Pulwama terrorist attack, for which terrorist outfit Jaish-E-Mohammed took responsibility, Mr. Gandhi said that it was in 1999 during the previous NDA government that the current chief of the terror outfit, Masood Azhar, who was in an Indian jail, was escorted to Khandar by NSA chief Ajit Doval and set free. He asked workers to think about who was then actually responsible for the terror attack many years later.

Attacking the BJP and the RSS for spreading hate in the country, Mr. Gandhi asked the gathering whether they wanted to live in an “India of Gandhi or an India of Godse”. He further attacked the Prime Minister for launching a scheme like ‘Make in India’, but actually using products that were made in China and bowing down to China when it came to Doklam.

Mr. Gandhi also said that policies like demonetisation and sealing drive in Delhi have lad to large-scale unemployment in the city.

He further asked booth workers to tell the people of Delhi that when the Congress comes to power, it would ensure minimum guaranteed income to every citizen of the country, address the problem of unemployment, open banks to small and medium businessmen and protect farmers. “Unlike the BJP, we do not make promises that we cannot keep. In the recently concluded State election in Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, we have kept all the promises that we had made during the polls,” he said.

The Congress president told booth presidents to ensure that they give a befitting reply to the BJP which, he said, “was dreaming of a Congress-mukth Bharat”.