BENGALURU : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday highlighted the declining security in Karnataka and slammed the Congress government for its shortcomings while wooing voters to vote for BJP and exercise more caution towards Congress.
Addressing party workers during his Vijay Sankalpa Yatra at Palace Grounds here, Modi called Congress “anti-youth, anti-investment, anti-farmer, and anti-entreprenur”.
“During the Congress rule here, our daughters are attacked; in markets bombs are being exploded; and people who play bhajans are being assaulted,” he said. “These are not common incidents. That’s why I appeal to people of Bengaluru and Karnataka to be more alert about Congress…which is grooming people with such a mentality, which is dangerous,” he said.
Speaking about Bengaluru, Modi said Nadaprabhu Kempegowda had a vision and dream to build Bengaluru, which is being destroyed by Congress. “The tank city built by Kempegowda has been converted into a tanker mafia city by Congress,” he said.
“Congress’ eyes are on corruption, not on Bengaluru’s problems,” he added.
He pointed out how the BJP-led Union government helped the metro line to increase from 17 km in 2014 to 70 km and promised to extend it further. “We also gave importance to suburban rail. Boeing has also come up, second in the world in manufacturing,” he said.
Modi slammed Congress for being “anti-farmer”.
Gowda slams Congress
Deve Gowda condemned the Congress for issuing advertisements of a cup that described the contribution of the Modi government as “chombu” — a slang for empty metal pot in Kannada — and described it as “cheap politics.”
Displaying the advertisement from a newspaper alongside PM Modi in Chikkaballapur, the nonagenarian former PM said the Congress should be ashamed of itself. He said, “It was actually the Congress government that handed over a chombu to Modi when he became PM in 2014.” Gowda slammed CM Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar claiming that the Congress helmed by Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh between 2004 and 2014 were accused of many corruption cases and had subsequently “looted the country”.
Praising Modi, Gowda said, “Modi has now turned that chombu into an akshaya patra.”