Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who launched the second and final leg of his campaign in poll-bound Karnataka on Saturday, said Congress and its functionaries have so far hurled 91 types of abuses at him.
He said the people of Karnataka would respond to this abuse with votes on May 10. “Someone made a list of all the 91 different abuses and sent it to me. Had Congress put the same effort into good governance and boosting the morale of their workers instead of wasting time on this dictionary of abuses, the party wouldn’t have been in such a pathetic state,” Modi said at a public rally at Humnabad, in Bidar district, about 700 km from Bengaluru.
At a rally at Vijayapura, 500 km from Bengaluru, Modi took an indirect swipe at former CM Siddaramaiah, saying, “A Congress leader is seeking votes in name of retirement. His biggest poll plank is: ‘This is my last election. Give me a chance’. What a pathetic state they have reached,” Modi said.
Addressing a public meeting in Mysuru, defence minister Rajnath Singh said Congress was traumatised by Modi’s growing popularity and, therefore, was making demeaning remarks about him.
Attacking Congress at another public meeting, in Belagavi, Modi said: “Congress owns corruption while BJP owns Amrit Kaal.” He added: “When the very foundations and ideas of a party are parivarvaad (dynasty), when a party’s existence depends upon a corrupt ecosystem, it cannot deliver results on the ground. It cannot work for the welfare of the people.”