‘Naamdar’ Cong vs ‘kaamdar’ BJP: PM
WAR OF WORDS Dares Rahul Gandhi to 15min speech on Karnataka Cong achievements ‘without reading from a paper’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday tore into the Congress for allegedly unleashing a culture of “ease of doing murder” in Karnataka as he launched the second leg of his campaign for the May 12 assembly elections in the state.
Modi also taunted Congress president Rahul Gandhi, daring him “to speak in any language” for 15 minutes about the achievements of the Siddaramaiah government without referring to a piece of paper.
Modi will address 15 rallies in five days across Karnataka, one of the few states with a Congress government. The BJP has said that winning the 224-seat Karnataka assembly polls will be crucial to its ambition of capturing other southern states.
Modi addressed two rallies on resuming his campaign after a long break --the last rally he addressed was in February-- as he sought to give a big push to the
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BJP’s efforts to return to power in the state for a second time.
“I dare the Congress president to speak in Hindi, English or the mother tongue of his mother to deliver a speech in Karnataka for 15 minutes, without reading out from a piece of paper, on the achievements of the party government... people of Karnataka will draw their own conclusion,” he told an election rally at Santemaranahalli.