PM Modi Roams Around Like He Is An MLA, Not Prime Minister: Mallikarjun Kharge
While addressing a large election rally in Madhya Pradesh“s Berasia, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said he roams around and campaigning as if he was an MLA and not the Prime Minister of the country. He then suggested that Mr Modi should focus more on the responsibility assigned as the Prime Minister of India.
In the speech, Mr Kharge expressed apprehensions that BJP led-Central government may go to the extent of denying voting rights to common people, restricting it to to rich and wealthy people like the Adani, Ambani, Birla and big Zamindars. It was the leaders like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar and others had guaranteed universal franchise to everyone and because of that right that the leaders felt the need to knock at the doorsteps of common people for votes, the Congress leader said. He added that if people did not have voting rights, nobody would come to them.
Mr Kharge then argued the Constitution and the democracy in the country had been preserved and safeguarded by the Congress alone; since, the BJP and the RSS did not do anything for the country, and he asked, “they have the audacity to question us as to what we did?.” The Congress president then accused the BJP of copying the Congress manifesto. Why the BJP which has been in power in the state for 18 years did not do all these things earlier, he enquired. Continuing further, Mr Kharge said that time had come to change this government which was known for charging fifty percent commission. In Karnataka, the ousted BJP government was taking 40 per cent commission.
Mr Kharge then listed scams that have been reported during long BJP rule including the Vyapam Scam, and paper leak scam. He asserted that all these scams will be investigated and action will be taken so that it will set a lesson for others.
Congress President highlighted that it was for the first time that farmers were being made to pay tax and on an average each farmer pays Rs 25,000 as tax in the country including 5 per cent GST on fertilisers, 12 per cent on tractors, and 18 percent on pesticides.
Besides, the government has reduced the subsidy on urea by Rs 40,000 crores. He added that now less urea was being supplied to farmers as the government had reduced 5 kgs from each bag without increasing the price. Similarly, the rates of DAP had been increased from Rs 1,075 to Rs 1,350 per bag, he pointed out.
Madhya Pradesh will go to booths on November 17, and will witness a tight fight between BJP and Congress.
