Modi’s promises hollow, politics divisive: Sonia
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Congress chief Sonia Gandhi launched an all-out attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday, saying his catchphrases like “sabka saath sabka vikas” and “na khauunga, na khaane dunga” are nothing but gimmicks to draw votes.
Gandhi, in her address at the 84th Congress Plenary Session, gave a clarion call to party leaders to be ready for sacrifices to strengthen the party and to make the county free from “discrimination, vendetta politics and arrogance”.
Earlier in the day, her son Rahul addressed made his plenary speech as party president and also took aim at Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party. “The country is being divided and people are made to fight each other,” he said, asking his party men and women “to bring people together and not to divide them on the basis of caste, religion or region”.
The comments were followed up a stronger criticism by his mother. “The slogans of ‘sab ka saath, sab ka vikas’ and ‘na khaoonga, na khaane doonga’ are only and only dramebazi (drama) and a trick to grab power,” she said, referring to Modi’s catchphrases.
According to the senior Gandhi, the Congress was fighting the Modi government and the people have begun to realise that the promises made by the BJP in 2014 were hollow.
“Under the leadership of former PM Manmohan Singh, the economy of this country flourished. Our government formed policies which lifted millions of people from poverty. And today, the Modi government is weakening these policies,” she said.