Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a two-page letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday and sought for his time to explain in person the grand old party’s ‘Nyay Patra’.
In his letter, Kharge, who is also Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Rajya Sabha, said: “You (PM Modi) are being misinformed by your advisors about things that are not even written in our (Congress) manifesto.”
“I would be more than happy to meet you in person to explain our Nyay Patra so that as the Prime Minister of the country you don’t make any statements that are false,” Kharge said.
Defending Congress’ manifesto for Lok Sabha polls 2024, Kharge, in the letter said: “The Nyay Patra aims at providing ’nyay’ (justice) to the youth, women, farmers, labourers and marginalised people across all castes and communities.”
What Kharge wrote in a letter to PM Modi?
Kharge began with hoping the letter to “Dear Pradhan Mantri Ji” finds him in good health.
In the very next line, the Congress chief went on to say, “I am neither shocked nor surprised by your language or your speeches over the last few days. It was expected that you and other leaders from your party would start speaking in this manner after you saw the dismal performance of the BJP in the first phase of the (Lok Sabha) elections.”
Kharge was responding to PM Modi’s remarks made at an election rally in Rajasthan. The Prime Minister alleged that the Congress manifesto mentions that the party will take stock of the gold mothers and daughters have, and will distribute that wealth to “those with more children” and “infiltrators”.
“They will check how much gold and silver our sisters own. The gold is not just for showing, it’s a woman’s self-esteem. The value of mangalsutra is not just limited to the price of gold, but is connection with their dreams. You (Congress) are taking about taking it away,” PM Modi had said.
He further went on to claim that the Congress has been talking about the deprived poor and their rights. “We are aware that you and your government does not have any concerns for the poor and dispossessed.”
“Our manifesto is for the people of India whether they are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jain or Buddhist… The Congress has always served to empower the poor and you have ruled to snatch the earnings and wealth of the poor,” Kharge said in the letter which he also shared on X (formerly Twitter).
The Congress president through his letter also attacked PM Modi for demonetisation and said: Your government was the one who used Demonetisation as an ‘organised loot and legalised plunder’ to transfer the money deposited by the poor in the banks to the rich in the form of loans.”
“Then as a part of conscious design, these loans were surreptitiously written off by your government. The lakhs of crores of corporate loans that your government has written off since 2014 is transfer of wealth from poor to rich. No farmer’s loan, artisans loans, MSME loan or students loans were waived off by you,” Kharge claimed.
“It has become a habit for you to seize on few words taken out of context and create a communal divide,” Kharge claimed.
Intensifying his attack against PM Modi, Kharge said: “You are lowering the dignity of the chair by speaking in this manner. When all of this is over, people will remember that the Prime Minister of the country used such vulgar language for fear of losing an election.”
Continuing his attack on PM Modi, Kharge said: “Your ‘suit-boot ki sarkar’ works for the corporates whose taxes you reduced while the salaried class pays higher taxes. The poor pay GST even on food and salt and the rich corporate claim GST refunds. That is why, when we talk of inequality between the rich and the poor, you are purposely equating it with Hindu and Muslim.”
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