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As BJP tries to bulldoze every claim made by Rajasthan Congress, the latter once again invokes election commission to fight the unstoppable Modi
There appears to be no end to (Tu Tu Mein Mein) verbal fight between the BJP and Congress in Rajasthan, which is schedual to vote tomorrow.
BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Friday in Pokhran said, if the Congress had followed the development agenda, things would have been much different in the country.
“It is not that development cannot happen. But except vote bank politics, Congress does not want to do anything”, Modi said at an election rally in Pokhran. Rajasthan will go to polls on December 1.
He claimed the Congress thinks of dividing and ruling the nation, while his party's focus is on keeping it united. “Todna Congress ka swabhav hai, jodna humara swabhav hai. Unki sooch hai todo aur raaj karo, humari soch hai jodo aur vikas karo (dividing people is in the Congress's nature, while our nature is to unite people. They think of divide and rule, we focus on unity and development)," he as- serted.
Stung by Narendra Modi's description of Congress as ‘poisonous’, the party has again moved the Election Commission seeking stern action against him as also two other BJP leaders including Vasundhara Raje.
In a detailed complaint to Chief Election Commissioner V S Sampath on Thursday, the Secretary of AICC legal department K C Mittal referred to a speech of Modi on November 25 in which he had said that no other party except Congress is in a position to ‘spread poison’ since it was this party, which enjoyed power for sixty years thereby storing the poison of power in it for all those years.
Modi's barb was apparently directed at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who had once said that his mother told him that ‘power is poison’.
These remarks by BJP's prime ministerial nominee also came after Sonia Gandhi attacked the BJP for spreading rumours that the medicine being distributed by Congress government in Rajasthan is poisonous and said that “the medicine is not poisonous but those people are poisonous, who do not have any feelings for the poor”.
"On October 10 2013, Raje while addressing a BJP seminar at Jaipur said poison is being given in the name of medicines. It may be relevant to mention that the Rajasthan Congress government has provided schemes for free medical services to the people.
"On November 23, BJP's Rajya Sabha member Bhupendra Yadav also attacked Congress Party for its advertisement on free medicines scheme and said the state government is indeed distributing poison and that Raje's remark was a reflection of the public sentiments," the party said in the petition.
However, Modi has been repeating his stance of ‘fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's dream of Congress-free India’. Referring to the state's Ashok Gehlot government, he charged it with not caring or being concerned about people.