Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit-out at Congress party and said that their excuse for defeat in Karnataka Assembly Elections will be faulty EVMs.
The Prime Minister was speaking at the election rally at Vijayapura.
Addressing a rally, Modi said, “Instead of going among the people, the Congress leaders are thinking about what excuses to make about a certain defeat. The reasons for their excuse will include faulty EVMs among others,”
Questioning what the grand-old-party has done for the farmers of Karnataka, Modi said, “When the state was suffering due to droughts, Ministers handling key portfolios were busy in Delhi doing politics.”
The Prime Minister also said that the people have gathered for this rally in large numbers because they want to show their support for BJP and aspire a better life in the coming five years.
“I am here in a land closely association with Bhagwan Basaveshwara. His philosophy called for taking all sections of society together. Sadly, the Congress government has not followed his principles. All they are bothered about is their votes,” he claimed.
The Prime Minister also said that the Central Government has brought social security schemes that are benefitting the poor. “It is our Government that worked on electrification of villages that had no power for 70 long years.”
On Monday, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi hit back at Prime Minister for his “PPP Congress” jibe, likening him to a mobile phone on “speaker and airplane” mode and not the “work” mode.
He accused Modi of making personal attacks against him as he did not have to speak about on other issues.
“There are three modes in a cell phone….the first is the work mode….the other two are speaker mode and airplane mode. Modi only uses speaker and airplane mode and not the work mode,” he told reporters in an impromptu interaction.
Senior Congress leader M Mallikarjuna Kharge has claimed that the May 12 Karnataka Assembly election results would teach a lesson to the BJP to mend its ways and send a larger message that people will not accept what the saffron party is doing on the advice of RSS.
“If you don’t prevent BJP here (in Karnataka), then definitely they will destroy the democracy; they are talking a lot of things about change of Constitution and also ‘Hindutva’ against the minorities. All these arguments (of the BJP), people don’t accept,” Kharge told PTI.
The state will go to polls on May 12. The counting of votes is scheduled for May 15.
The BJP has declared its state unit chief B S Yeddyurappa and JDS H D Kumaraswamy as their chief ministerial faces. Both have been the state’s chief minister. The Karnataka Assembly election will be held on May 12 and the counting of votes will be done on May 15.
