Based on graft, dynasty, Modi tells rally

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the Congress “a product of a sick mindset and outlook” at an election rally in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday.

He said it was no longer the Congress of Mahatma Gandhi but a party based on the “principles of corruption and dynastic rule.” Mr. Modi did not spare even the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and claimed he wanted to finish off the Jan Sangh when he was in power, right from the Panchayats to Parliament. But now the same party, progressing from a lamp to a lotus, was “writing the obituary of this grand old party.”

He also criticised Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, for “consulting” the Chinese ambassador on the Doklam issue instead of the country’s own Foreign Ministry or the government.

“A new and an honest government is on the way in Himachal and that would not allow anyone to plunder the resources of this small hill State,” Mr. Modi told the rally in Dhaula Kuan in Sirmaur district.