We should be prepared for more attacks: Mallikarjun Kharge

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that the success of both INDIA blocs meetings first in Patna and second in Bengaluru can be measured by the fact that the Prime Minister in his subsequent speeches has not just attacked INDIA but has also compared the name of our beloved country with a terrorist organisation and a symbol of slaveryHe was speaking at the Opposition alliances meeting on Mumbai on FridayWe should be prepared for more attacks in the coming months more raids and arrests due to this governments vendetta politics The more ground our alliance gains the more the BJP Govt will misuse agencies against our leaders It has done the same in Maharashtra Rajasthan Bengal In fact last week it was done in Jharkhand and in Chhattisgarh he addedHe said the sections of our society mdash be it the farmers youth women the marginalised middle class public intellectuals NGOs and even journalists mdash were at the receiving end of BJPrsquos authoritarian misrule 140 crore Indians are looking towards us with hope to relieve them of their miseries he addedKharge attributed hate crimes against train passengers and school children to the communal poison that the BJP and RSS have spread over the last 9 yearsIt is no surprise that when people involved in gruesome rape are released and felicitated in one part of the county it encourages horrific crimes and parading of naked women in the other In Modi jirsquos India the wife of a Kargil brave heart is also not spared he addedIt is the BJP Govts apathy towards the marginalised that makes their leaders urinate on poor tribals and Dalits and the culprits are left to roam freely he further saidHe said the federalism of the country was in danger The central government headed by Prime Minister Modi wants to keep states under check States are being denied their share of the tax revenues MGNREGA dues to Opposition ruled states are not being given Special grants and state specific grants are not released as per recommendation of the Finance CommissionInvestment migrationAccording to the Congress chief the investors were forced to move their investments and projects out of opposition ruled states to states ruled by the BJPYesterday Rahul Gandhi held a Press Conference here and questioned PM Narendra Modirsquos silence on alleged Stock Manipulation by Adani Group He demanded a JPC probe into charges of round tripping and reports of Opaque Investment from Mauritius based company It is unexplainable why the Prime Minister is not getting the matter investigated he askedThe BJP wants complete control on agencies and institutions it is adamant on controlling the appointment of ED Chief the CBI Director Election Commissioners or even judges of courts across the country he added furtherSuccess of allianceCommenting of the efforts of the Opposition he said Through the course of the three meetings INDIA alliance has successfully held the government accountable both within and outside Parliament as a united frontOur strength makes the government nervous and which is why it has further bulldozed important bills in parliament suspended our MPs on flimsy grounds filed privilege motions against us switched off our mikes not allowed cameras to cover our protests and blatantly censored our speeches on Sansad TV he saidCoordination Committee and Election Strategy Committee INDIAKC Venugopal INC Sharad Pawar NCPTR Baalu DMKHemant Soren JMMSanjay Raut SSTejasvi Yadav RJDAbhishek Banerjee TMCRaghav Chaddha AAPJaved Ali Khan SPLallan Singh JDUD Raja CPIOmar Abdullah NCMehbooba Mufti PDPCPIM to give name laterCampaign Committee INDIAGurdeep Singh Sappal INCSanjay Jha JDUAnil Desai SSSanjay Yadav RJDPC Chako NCPChampai Soren JMMKiranmoy Nanda SPSanjay Singh AAPArun Kumar CPIMBinoy Vishwam CPIJustice Retd Hasnain Masoodi NCShahid Siddiqui RLDNK Premachandran RSPG Devarajan AIFBRavi Rai CPIMLThirumavalan VCKKM Kadar Moidin IUMLJose K Mani KCMTMC to give name laterWorking Group for Social MediaSupriya Srinate INCSumit Sharma RJDAshish Yadav SPRajeev Nigam SPRaghav Chaddha AAPAvindani JMMIltija Mehbooba PDPPranjal CPMDr Bhalchandran Kango CPIIfra Ja NCV Arun Kumar CPIMLTMC to give name laterWorking Group for MediaJairam Ramesh INCManoj Jha RJDArvind Sawant SSJitendra Ahwad NCPRaghav Chaddha AAPRajiv Ranjan JDUPranjal CPMAshish Yadav SPSupriyo Bhattacharya JMMAlok Kumar JMMManish Kumar JDURajeev Nigam SPDr Bhalchandran Kango CPITanvir Sadiq NCPrashant KannojiaNaren Chatterjee AIFBSucheta De CPIMLMohit Bhan PDPTMC to give name laterWorking Group for ResearchAmitabh Dubey INCProf Subodh Mehta RJDPriyanka Chaturvedi SSVandana Chavan NCPKC Tyagi JDUSudivya Kumar Sonu JMMJasmine Shah AAPAlok Ranjan SPImran Nabi Dar NCAd Aditya PDPTMC to give name later