PM Modi’s dig at Congress: Leaders, their speeches are filmy

The BJP has been claiming that there is infighting in the Congress after a video surfaced in which former Chief Minister Kamal Nath is seen telling disgruntled party workers seeking tickets for their leaders to tear the clothes of former Chief Minister Digvijay Singh and his son, Jaivardhan Singh.

The Congress has said that relations between the two former CMs is cordial and compared their friendship to that of Jai and Veeru from the classic Sholay.

There is infighting in the Congress because they know they are going to lose, said Modi. “The fight is not just for a chair but to secure the future of their own sons. They are fighting to decide who will control the Madhya Pradesh Congress in the future… The Congress is not going to accommodate everyone,” he said.

The PM also promised to extend the free ration (food grains under the public distribution system) scheme for “80 crore poor people of the country” for five years beyond December, and said that “fulfilling the people’s dreams is Modi’s resolve.”

“Under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, free ration has been provided to the poor in the country over the past three years. Even though the one-month free ration scheme is coming to an end, Modi’s commitment is to extend it for the next five years. For the next five years, the stoves of 80 crore people in my country will keep burning. This is Modi’s guarantee,” he said.

Attacking the Congress over its track record in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, he said, “Look at Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, what have they (Congress) done in the past five years? Congress means scams worth thousands of crores, criminals gaining prominence, the poor losing trust, and atrocities on Dalits, tribals, and backward classes. Congress means making the state sick.”

Modi also said that no one in the country was left who has not been deceived by Congress. “In every election, the Congress comes up with loan waiver promises, but it’s not the farmers who benefit. It’s the Congress and its cronies who benefit,” he said.