Dares Congress to make a non-Gandhi the party president for 5 years
PM Narendra Modi at a rally in Ambikapur on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked the Congress to give an account of what the four generations of the Nehru-Gandhi family did for the nation before asking for an account of his government’s four-and-half-year rule.
Targeting Congress chief Rahul Gandhi at a rally at Ambikapur in north Chhattisgarh, Modi said, “They are roaming around giving speeches here. What has (CM) Raman Singh done? He has not done this, not done that. I want to ask them. When did you realise that all this must happen? When you were sitting for four generations, why did you not do it? Did you lay a water pipeline somewhere? Did your Nana Nani Dada Dadi lay them? And Raman Singh uprooted them?… Why are you fooling the country? First you must give an account of why you did not do anything.”
The PM fired fresh ammo at the Congress over Shashi Tharoor’s ‘chaiwala’ remark. “They say that because… of Pandit Nehru, this tea seller (Modi) has become Prime Minister… If you think that because of your principles, because of your contribution to the Constitution, (and) because of Pandit Nehru, Modi has become Prime Minister… (then) just once for at least five years make a good Congressman from outside your family the Congress president. I will admit that Pandit Nehru left behind such a democratic culture that a dedicated Congressman has been able to become Congress president,” Modi said.
He said, “…that a tea seller could become PM, they (Congress) are not willing to give credit to people. It is a result of their undemocratic mindset that for that too they need to credit Nehru. If you have faith in democracy, then the credit for a tea seller becoming PM doesn’t go to Modi, it goes to the awareness of my 1.5 crore people, it goes to their patriotism.”
Targeting Ambikapur MLA and Congress Leader of Opposition T S Singhdeo, who is from the Surguja royal family, Modi said: “It will be good for India’s democracy if the country comes out of dynasty (politics). These (erstwhile) royal families that are sitting, it comes away from them…” Singhdeo is considered to be a frontrunner for the CM post if the Congress comes to power.
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