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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who began his address in Karnataka’s Shivamogga with the ‘Bajrangbali ki Jai’ slogan, took a swipe at the Congress, saying that they were “scared” and brought in veteran leader Sonia Gandhi for campaigning after its “lies did not work”.
Without taking the name of the former Congress chief, Modi said: “Now, the Congress is so afraid and scared that when their lies did not work, then those who are not taking part in campaigning are being brought here. The Congress has started dumping the responsibility of defeat on each other”.
Sonia Gandhi addressed her first election rally in poll-bound Karnataka on May 6 in Hubballi. She had largely stayed away from campaigning since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls reportedly due to health reasons.
Speaking about his road show held in Bengaluru this morning, he said, “No political party dares to begin any of their programmes before 11 am. But we conducted the roadshow early as there was a NEET exam today. I told my party members that our exam might be on May 10, but the children’s exam has to be kept in mind.”
“I received a lot of love today from the public of Bengaluru,” he said.
Stepping up his attack on Congress, he further said that the politics and development of the Congress party are only “on paper”, and they can “never develop” the state of Karnataka.
Modi accused the party of neglecting the women of Karnataka in the past. “The education of girls and women’s empowerment were pushed back during the Congress rule. The girls used to drop out of school because Congress did not make separate toilets for girls. But BJP campaigned to remove the injustice done to girls and today more and more girls are going to school,” he said.
Mentioning the Russia-Ukraine war, he said that the crisis between the two countries led to the increase in the prices of fertilisers, but the Centre did not allow the burden to fall on the nation’s farmers.
“Congress governments have not had any policy to protect farmers from drought, floods and other calamities. Under PM Fasal Bima Yojana, Rs 1 lakh 30 thousand has been paid to the farmers as compensation, of which the farmers of Karnataka received 10,000 crores.”
He also accused the Congress of keeping small farmers out of the banking system. “The BJP government introduced the Kisan credit card to include all farmers in the banking system, The Congress, in the name of loan waiver used to fill the treasure chests of its own people.”
(With inputs from PTI)
