Modi is trying to polarise voters, says Sachin Pilot

SBS NAGAR: Senior Congress leader and Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Monday at Balachaur in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was deliberately trying to divert the public attention from the real issues.

“Instead of talking about the prices of essential commodities like food, fertilizers, cooking gas, petroleum, and unemployment, Modi is trying to polarise people”, he said, adding, people will get him removed.

“Why is he shying away from talking about his five years’ performance,” Pilot asked at a public meeting in support of the party candidate from Shri Anandpur Sahib parliamentary constituency, Manish Tewari.

Pilot said the local candidate of Shiromani Akali Dal, an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party, must be asked what he did for Punjab or for the Anandpur Sahib.

Pilot said he had extensively travelled across the country and noticed a strong anti-incumbency wave against the BJP and the PM which made their exit imminent.

Congress candidate Manish Tewari reminded people about Modi’s promises before 2014: “While Modi has forgotten his old promises, he has now come up with a different set of promises to try to befool people. You can fool some people some time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

Tewari appealed to the people to ask the sitting MP Prem Singh Chandumajra about the work he had done for the constituency and its people in the last five years.

“Even the funds meant for Anandpur Sahib were diverted to Sanaur in Patiala where his son is an MLA,” he said.

Tewari promised he will facilitate an investment of ₹50,000 crore over the next five years that will create about five lakh jobs.