NAGPUR: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) of deceptive folks by means of provocative speeches, divisive slogans and spreading misinformation about his celebration.
Addressing a press convention in Nagpur forward of the Maharashtra meeting elections on November 20, Kharge stated the BJP was partaking in “baatna and kaatna” (dividing and slaughtering)—a reference to the “batenge to katenge” slogan popularised by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and later adopted by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Kharge requested the BJP to resolve between Adityanath’s divisive slogan and the one coined by Prime Minister Narendra Modi lately calling for unity. “Whereas Yogi says, ‘Batenge toh katenge,’ Modi introduces the conflicting slogan, ‘Ek hain toh protected hain (If we’re united, we’re protected).’ I urge each leaders to come back to a consensus on whose slogan needs to be adopted—Yogiji’s or Modi’s?”
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The Chief of the Opposition within the Rajya Sabha slammed the BJP for what he described as a technique of distraction by means of provocative speeches and misinformation. “It’s the BJP that should resolve whether or not it needs to divide or unite the folks,” he stated. Kharge added that the ruling celebration’s leaders focus solely on inciting division and deceptive the general public reasonably than addressing urgent points reminiscent of unemployment, the agrarian disaster, and declining legislation and order.
Kharge additionally criticised BJP leaders for allegedly deceptive folks by saying that the Congress-led Karnataka authorities didn’t fulfil its election guarantees. He asserted that monetary allocations have been correctly made for every of the assure schemes introduced by the celebration within the southern state.
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“I’ve responded to them intimately in Jharkhand and Maharashtra. Even now, I ask them to check our Karnataka finances. About ₹52,000 crore has been allotted for the 5 assure schemes within the finances, 47% of which has already been spent. They in all probability haven’t seen the finances,” he stated in response to a query about Modi and BJP leaders concentrating on the Karnataka authorities’s assure schemes throughout their election marketing campaign.
Kharge then accused PM Modi of spreading falsehoods, saying, “It’s shameful for a chief minister to talk such blatant lies and declare that Karnataka just isn’t implementing the promised schemes.” He additionally challenged Modi to reveal that his authorities had fulfilled its key guarantees, reminiscent of recovering black cash or doubling farmers’ incomes. “In my 60 years of public life, I’ve by no means witnessed a chief minister who lies so continuously and faces no penalties,” he stated.
Kharge urged voters to not belief the BJP, which he characterised as a celebration filled with liars, and referred to as for a decisive mandate for the Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra. He accused the BJP of copying his celebration’s assure schemes and making comparable bulletins in poll-bound states as a part of its election rhetoric. “All the pieces is jumla (rhetoric). They converse issues for the sake of elections, whereas the Congress at all times works for the welfare of the folks,” he stated.
The Congress president additionally criticised the BJP for forming coalition governments in states by breaking apart political events by means of the misuse of central companies just like the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation. He was referring to the BJP forming a authorities in Maharashtra by splitting up the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
“And now, they (BJP leaders) need a recent lease for the illegitimate [Maharashtra] authorities and are utilizing all their chief ministers to marketing campaign for the [ruling] Mahayuti [alliance],” he stated. The Mahayuti alliance contains the BJP, the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP.
Kharge additionally alleged that Vidarbha had misplaced a number of funding to Gujarat, saying that “two huge leaders” from the area didn’t do something about it as they have been involved about saving their posts and didn’t care concerning the folks’s pursuits. He was seemingly referring to Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and union minister Nitin Gadkari.
Kharge challenged the BJP to have interaction in a debate about its achievements during the last 11 years, stating, “We’ll current the work we have now achieved in 55 years.”
