Wayanad: Continuing his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the second day of his visit to Wayanad, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said Saturday his Lok Sabha election campaign was filled with “lies, poison and hatred”, but the Congress stood for truth, love and affection.
Gandhi, addressing party workers at Kalpetta town in his Lok Sabha constituency after taking out a massive roadshow, said his party would continue to fight Modi, his lies and hatred with love.
He also said Modi represents “anger, lies, intolerance and the worst sentiments of the country.”
“On the national level, we are fighting poison. Modi’s campaign was filled with lies, poison, hatred and divided the people of the country. He used lies in the election… Congress stood for truth, love and affection,” he told the crowd.
Gandhi took out roadshows in Wayanad on Friday and Saturday, during which people gathered on both sides of the road on the route to have a glimpse of their new MP and welcome him.
On Friday in Malappuram district, Gandhi said his party would emerge as a strong Opposition and defend the poor.
Criticising Modi, he said, “Modi may have money, he may have the media by his side, he may have rich friends. But the Congress will continue to fight against the intolerance created by the BJP”.
“The intolerance created by BJP and Modi will be dealt by the Congress party with love and affection,” Gandhi added.
The Congress president is on a three-day visit to the constituency after he was voted to Lok Sabha with a margin of about 4.31 lakh votes.
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Well at last and at least he’s spoken in public after the election results; and appalling and beats any human sense and logic that he’s still talking in same line. It’s getting more and more clear that even if he gives up President-ship, he will always remain the public face of congress, and always saying what all he’s saying now; even if the public has rejected it, in the back of his mind is the 12cr vote the Congress got as justification. Hence, albeit scary, the BJP’s reign time period is directly proportional to Rahul remaining public face of Congress.
1. No one will be fooled by Congress President repeating his allegations of intolerance against PM Narendra Modi. 2. WE citizen-voters who are not attached to any political party wish to know whether Rahul Gandhi and his team would show courage to own-up mistakes like describing PM Modi as “chor” made during last few months. Does Congress President realize that how the citizen-voters’ have responded to his insensitive criticism of PM Narendra Modi? I wonder whether he has. This I am saying on basis of his speeches in Kerala. 3. Fact is that there are now fewer and fewer takers for Congress party with its so-called secular agenda and vague economic agenda. It is obvious that Congress party’s promised minimum income guarantee was without any serious calculation of resources required to pay that kind of money to crores of poor citizens. Citizen-voters have rejected all such empty promises. 4. I believe that the Congress party has a future as a centrist (to be precise, left of the centre) political party and the citizen-voters too wish that the Congress should reorganize to become such a centrist party. More importantly, it should reconsider its secular agenda which depends too much on minority voters for survival- this I suppose is an important lesson of 2019 LS election results. 5. Would today’s Congress leadership be able to make a break from the past and grow? Let us hope that senior Congress leaders do some a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis of the organization and take remedial steps to move out their party from the current pathetic situation.
What we have just been through was not a college debate at St Xavier’s but a general election, with 900 million registered voters. They have chosen, with utmost clarity and decisiveness. It is evident that the ideology of the Congress and the BJP are poles apart. That debate will continue. However, criticism of the government or its leader should not sound like mocking the choice people have made. Instead, the Congress needs to reflect on all that went wrong, starting with why this constituency visit is taking place in Wayanad, not Amethi. 2. Watched a brief OTC clip where Shri Sharad Pawar mentioned there is talk in the Congress party about “ collective leadership “. That has never worked anywhere in the world, including the Communist states where the term first emerged. The party and its Hamlet need to figure this basic issue before the arduous task of reconstruction can begin.
Shri Rahul Gandhi is continuing with the mistakes that he made made in the Lok Sabha elections. By stating that “Modi’s campaign was filled with lies, poison, hatred and divided the people of the country” he is insinuating that 46% of the voting population fell for Shri Narendra Modi’s lies, hatred etc. By this, he is further driving away voters from his party. He is unable to get over the crushing defeat his party has suffered and all his talk about love is hogwash.
Yeh Public hai sab janti hai, Rahul bhaiya, more U criticize more gain for Modi ji.,as powers come from supreme Truth.