New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over its claims relating to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tenure, accusing the ruling get together of ‘twisting and distorting historical past’ and making a ‘new and ridiculous class’.
In a submit on X, Kharge wrote, ‘Twisting and distorting historical past doesn’t change the reality.’
He asserted that India’s longest-serving Prime Minister was Jawaharlal Nehru and that Indira Gandhi had the second-longest tenure, questioning current BJP claims highlighting Modi’s report in workplace.
‘India’s longest-serving Prime Minister was Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He was additionally the one who served the longest constantly as Prime Minister. Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister with the second-longest tenure. Now, the BJP has to invent a brand new and ridiculous class to show who’s the longest constantly serving Prime Minister after basic elections in impartial India,’ mentioned Kharge.
The Congress president additionally invoked key figures from India’s early post-Independence governments.
He mentioned, ‘Remind the nation of this as well–In whose cupboard was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel the Deputy Prime Minister? In whose cupboard was Babasaheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar the Law Minister? Up to whose cupboard did Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee function a Minister?’
Kharge alleged that the previous 12 years had been marked by ‘sloganeering’ and claimed that residents had been burdened by inflation, unemployment and corruption.
‘In 12 years, the Modi authorities has carried out nothing however sloganeering, and has trapped the nation’s individuals in an internet of inflation, unemployment, and corruption,’ he asserted.
He additional accused the federal government of failing to ship on a variety of guarantees and initiatives, together with employment era, farmers’ revenue progress, financial targets and governance reforms. According to Kharge, the federal government had delivered ‘solely propaganda, failure, and betrayal of the individuals’ throughout a number of sectors.
’15 lakh, 2 crore jobs yearly, doubling farmers’ revenue, $5 trillion financial system, Make in India, Skill India, Startup India, Atmanirbhar Bharat, Digital India, bullet practice by 2023, Smart City, Jal Jeevan Mission, Namami Gange, Swachh Bharat, PM Kisan, Ujjwala, Ayushman Bharat, Mudra Loan, Ease of Doing Business, overseas funding, GST, demonetization, Agnipath, housing scheme, schooling coverage, corruption-free India, inflation management, decreasing unemployment, MSME safety, well being system, COVID administration, migrant labor disaster, social concord, federal construction, credibility of establishments, environmental safety, air pollution management, and unlawful infiltration–on each entrance, solely propaganda, failure, and betrayal of the individuals,’ Kharge acknowledged.
‘Now, within the identify of achievements, all this authorities has left is Event Management and Manufactured Narratives,’ Kharge added.
The remarks got here because the Prime Minister accomplished 4,399 days in workplace.
India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, initially assumed workplace in 1947 and gained the nation’s first basic election in 1951-52. He remained in workplace till his passing in 1964. Meanwhile, Indira Gandhi, India’s first lady Prime Minister, served for rather less than 16 years, however her tenure was unfold throughout two separate stints.
In an announcement acknowledging the event, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) prolonged its heat congratulations to Prime Minister Modi as he achieved a historic milestone – turning into India’s longest-serving democratically elected Prime Minister in consecutive phrases. (ANI)