Congress seeking votes in name of retirement, JDS on survival: PM

Attacking Congress and Janata Dal-Secular party ahead of Karnataka assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the Bharatiya Janata Party is asking for votes for development while Congress is seeking votes in the name of retirement and JDS to ensure the political existence of its family.
Addressing a public meeting at Sindhanur, PM Modi said, “BJP is the only party that has the road map of development. The double engine has the resolve and the power.” He said the only goal and resolution of the BJP is to make Karnataka the No. 1 state in the country. Only the double-engine government of the BJP can ensure true development. He said, “The biggest cheating the Congress and JDS governments have done is with the villages of Karnataka and the farmers of Karnataka. Right since independence, Congress has been looting the country and blocking the ways of furnishing development to the villages of the country.”
Every BJP worker, the PM said, has stood like a rock in front of the “appeasement politics” of Congress and JDS.
He said, “Congress-JDS never paid attention to the real needy due to its appeasement policy. The problems of the Lingayat, Banjara, Lambani Samaj, and Kurba communities had also been pending for years. For the first time, the BJP government gave the identity of villages to their settlements. Hakku patras were given to thousands of Banjara families. This has given confidence to every section of society that the BJP will solve their problems too. Today, the appeasement of Congress has lost to the gratification of the BJP.”
He said Congress has neither an issue related to development nor a vision.
“Not only me, but the whole country is wondering over the way Congress has been behaving. Everyone is feeling ashamed of the activities of Congress, the language of this party’s leaders, their words, their ego…everything has been absolutely awful,” PM Modi stated.
He said, “Whenever there is a crisis in the country, then the leaders of Congress and JDS have done politics on that crisis also. Nowadays, a civil war is going on in Sudan. There is a hue and cry. We are working day and night to bring back each and every Indian safely, but Congress leaders played politics on this too and provoked many families.”
“Congress cheated farmers in the name of providing waivers, whereas the BJP ensured welfare for farmers through excellent initiatives like the PM KiSAN Yojana. You have seen the ‘Corruption Kaal’ of Congress; now you are seeing the ‘Amrit Kaal’ under the BJP,” PM Modi said.
The Prime Minister said the BJP has opened around 9,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras in the country, which provide affordable and quality medicines to the people. This very initiative of the BJP has saved the poor and middle-class people of the country from spending Rs 20,000 crore, he said.