Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in her inaugural address at the Chintan Shivir in Udaipur on Friday, attacked the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said their mantra of 'minimum government, maximum governance' meant “brutalising minorities” and “compelling people to live in fear.”
“By now it has become abundantly and painfully clear what PM Modi and his colleagues really mean by their slogan ‘maximum governance, minimum government’. It means keeping the country in a permanent state of polarisation, compelling people to live in a constant state of fear and insecurity, viciously targeting and victimising and often brutalising minorities who are an integral part of our society,” she said.
She also criticised the BJP for “wholesale reinvention of history”. She added: “It means wholesale re-invention of history, constant denigration of leaders like JL Nehru, and a systematic move to destroy their achievements and sacrifices while glorifying the killers of Mahatma Gandhi & their ideologues.”
Speaking about the Congress, she said that changes in the organisation are need of the hour. She urged party leaders to keep the organisation above personal ambitions, saying the party has given us a lot and it's time to pay back. She said the Shivir is also an occasion to deliberate on the many challenges ahead and bring organisational changes. It is both 'Chintan' about national issues and meaningful 'aatmachintan' (self-introspection) about our party organisation, she said.
