Day After Big Haryana Win, PM Targets Congress With Eye On Maharashtra
NDTV
PM Modi also attacked the Congress for trying to "spread lies among the Dalits", and accused it of "snatching reservation from Dalits and giving it to their vote bank".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi - fresh from celebrating a comeback win in the Haryana election Tuesday evening - was back firing barbs at the Congress this morning, accusing his rival of being an "irresponsible party" and labelling it a "factory to spread hatred". The Congress, he raged, wants to "create fear among Muslims" so it gets minority community votes. "BJP has won the Haryana election... but in Maharashtra we have to get a bigger victory," the PM declared as he launched his party's next poll campaign.
The BJP's "historic" win - it became the first party to win three consecutive terms in the heartland state - "shows the mood of the country", he said as he inaugurated infra projects in poll-bound Maharashtra, where his party is allied with factions of the Shiv Sena and NCP.
"The Congress is doing politics of hatred... Congress is bent on destroying the country. We all have to be aware and cautious. I am sure the people of Maharashtra will give a befitting reply to all forces bent on destroying the society," Mr Modi said via a video link.
