Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched a no-holds barred attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the name 'Modi' now symbolises collusion between India's biggest crony capitalists and the prime minister of India.
In his concluding speech at the AICC plenary session, Rahul took swipes at Modi, saying, “Nirav Modi, who carried out India's biggest theft has the same name as our PM...there's more. The most corrupt man in cricket also shares the same name as the PM.”
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“So what does Modi actually mean? The name Modi symbolises collusion between India's biggest crony capitalists and the prime minister of India,” he said, playing on the common surname between the prime minister and Nirav Modi, who is wanted in the PNB scam, and Lalit Modi, who is an accused of alleged corruption in organising of the Indian Premier League.
He took a dig at Modi, saying while the farmers and the unemployed youth suffered, he said to them, “Chalo, Yoga Karte Hain.”
“There is no employment. Farmers are dying. And Modiji says, 'Chalo, India Gate Ke Saamne Yoga Karte Hain',” said Rahul.
Setting the tone for the coming round of assembly elections in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh and Rajasthan, which will all see a direct contest between the Congress and the BJP, and thereon the Lok Sabha polls, Rahul likened the fight between the RSS-BJP combine and his party with the war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. “The Kauavas were drunk on power and believed they were the greatest...The Pandavas were humble...Like the Kauravas, the BJP and the RSS are designed to fight for power. Like the Pandavas, the Congress is designed to fight for the truth,” he said.
He charged the BJP with spreading fear in the country, and alleged that the RSS is trying to undermine institutions, including the judiciary, Parliament and police. “People of India go to the courts for justice. For the first time, four judges of the Supreme Court had to come to the people for justice,” the Congress President said.
Outlining the issues on which the Congress is expected to intensify its attack on the Modi government and the BJP, Rahul said the farmers, the labourers, and the unemployed were made to experience a new phenomenon called 'Modi Maya', which is an imaginary world of 'Acche Din', 'Swacch Bharat' and Rs 15 lakh coming into the bank account of every Indian. This, he said, was unravelling, as the promise of two crore jobs has not been fulfilled by far, and the farmers are working for nothing. “The trust in Modi has broken completely,” he said.
Terming the coming electoral contests a fight between two ideologies, he said the BJP has been losing election after election, and this has “brought about a change in Modiji's face.
“The suit is gone. He is thinking that somehow they managed to win Gujarat. And he must be thinking that they will not be able to go through in 2019,” Rahul said.