AJMER, OCTOBER 06 :
“With great difficulty, the country has picked the right direction now after 60 years. Don’t give them another chance again,” he says.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the Congress of practising vote-bank politics and dividing people to get into power.
Mr. Modi was addressing a rally in Ajmer just ahead of the Election Commission of India’s announcement of the schedule for Assembly elections in Rajasthan and four other States in November and December.
He asked people not to let the Congress get into power again.
Vote-bank politics was not limited to elections now. Political parties which did vote-bank politics divided the bureaucracy when they were in power and this badly affected governance, he said.
‘No overall development’
They allocated the budget as per vote-bank politics and, therefore, overall development did not happen, he said at the meeting which marked the end of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s State-wide ‘Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra’, an outreach exercise by the BJP.
The Congress had established this tradition in the past 60 years. “With great difficulty, the country has picked the right direction now after 60 years. Don’t give them another chance again,” he said.
The Congress leaders’ high command was a family and they could do politics only by revering it, he said.
Mr. Modi accused that party also of playing low-level politics. Its leaders were questioning the surgical strikes by the Army across the Line of Control (LoC) two years ago and insulting soldiers, he said. They should be ashamed of indulging in such politics.
