Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked the Opposition party Congress for the “absence of internal democracy” during his two-day visit to poll-bound Gujarat. The Prime Minister’s remarks came a day before Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi was scheduled to file his nomination papers for election to the post of party president.
PM Modi once again visited his home state Gujarat on Sunday, three days after he addressed four campaign meetings for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the poll-bound state.
For his two-day sojourn, the BJP has organised seven public gatherings, called ‘Vikas Rallies’, to stress on the ruling BJP’s development plank.
The two-phase Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017 will take place on December 9 and 14, while the results will be out on December 18.
Here are the top 10 recent developments in the Gujarat campaign and what PM Modi said during his rallies:
1) Defending his government’s ambitious bullet train project, Modi said it would bring investment and employment to the region. As reported earlier, while addressing a public rally in Bharuch, he said: “Those opposing the bullet train project should travel by bullock carts. We won’t mind.”
Modi made the comment while lashing out at the Congress for its criticism of the Rs 1.1-lakh crore project — which he said was “a negligible price” — connecting Ahmedabad and Mumbai and to be built by Japan. He said the Congress government, too, wanted the project but failed to get it and so was now opposing it.
2) Mocking the Congress over the upcoming election of its president, Modi on Sunday alleged the party had a history of rigging organisational polls
The outcome of the election to the top post in the Congress was a foregone conclusion, Modi said while addressing a rally in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district. “If you do not have democracy in your home (party) how can you practise it in the country,” Modi asked.
According to agency reports, reacting to Modi’s remarks, the Congress on Sunday questioned the Prime Minister over “internal democracy” in the BJP, saying that many senior leaders of his party were lost in the pages of history.
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