Congress a vine, sucks dry those who support it, says PM Modi in Maharashtra

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday dubbed the Congress a vine which has no roots or branches and sucks dry those who support it and asked people to be wary of the opposition alliance in realising the goals of Viksit Bharat and Viksit MaharashtraModi who addressed two election rallies in Maharashtra on Saturday first in Nanded followed by Parbhani also said the Congress has accepted its defeat even before the Lok Sabha poll results are out and took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi saying that just as he lost from Amethi in 2019 the Congress sahabzade will lose the Wayanad parliamentary seat this timeBoth Nanded and Parbhani are located in Marathwada region of the stateAt the Parbhani rally the PM said the 2024 polls were not just to form the government but to make India developed and selfreliantCongress is a vine which doesnt have roots or branches It sucks dry those who lend support to it Modi said hitting out at the oppositionHe accused the Congress of partitioning the country and claimed it did not allow the Constitution to be implemented in Kashmir under the pretext of Article 370Hitting out at the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in Maharashtra he said the Congress and the fake Shiv Sena a reference to Shiv Sena UBT were busy decorating Yakub Memons grave Memon a convict in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case was hanged in 2015When the INDI alliance opposition grouping was in power they did not make people feel that the Nizam rule had ended the Razakar mentality was overwhelming here Their priority was to decorate Yakub Memons grave he saidModi urged people to be wary of the INDI alliance in realising the goal of Viksit Bharat and Viksit MaharashtraHe said the 2024 Lok Sabha polls were all about making India the thirdlargest economy in the worldIn the last term of his government Modi said people saw the success of Chandrayaan mission and in the next term 140 crore Indians will witness Gaganyaans successThis is the first election where people are talking about the success of Atmanirbhar Bharat from anticoronavirus vaccine to weapons for the armed forces he saidIn only 10 years the country has traversed a long journey of development Modi saidThe PM said when he first contested the Lok Sabha polls in 2014 the talk in the country was about the fear of terror attacks and blasts and the pain of the death of soldiersHowever the talk was about surgical strikes in the next five years in 2019 he saidModi said he had lived a life of poverty understood the pains of the poor and stressed that no poor should go through what he had experiencedAt the Nanded rally he accused the Congress of being a barrier in the path of development and said it it cannot be trusted to work for the countrys progressApparently targeting former Congress president Sonia Gandhi Modi said some INDIA bloc leaders who have been members of the Lok Sabha for several years have left the Lower House of Parliament and found a seat in the Rajya Sabha as they lack confidence to fight electionsReferring to Rahul Gandhi he said The Congress sahabzade sees a problem in Wayanad He is waiting for the voting on April 26 after which he and his gang will look for a safe seat because after Amethi he will have to leave Wayanad as wellWill any voters waste their vote for such people They will instead vote for Viksit Bharat Congress has been a barrier in the development of farmers poor and womenCant trust that the party will work for the countrys progress he saidModi referred to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayans recent remarks against Rahul Gandhi and said Even I cant make such commentsHolding Congressled governments flawed policies for the agriculture crisis and farmers problems he said the NDA government was committed to work for their welfareThe PM said he has been fixing the problems created by the erstwhile Congress governments in the last 10 yearsNow we have to work even harder he saidCongress survives on one family But now that family cant vote for the party candidate For the first time the family will have to vote for a nonCongress candidate in the constituency where they live because they dont have a candidate Modi addedDescribing the INDIA bloc as a grouping of selfish parties that have come together to protect their corrupt practices he said the alliance has been rejected by voters in the first phaseThe INDI alliance does not have a face to project whom the people see to entrust the countrys future to he saidThey may claim anything but the reality is that Congress leaders have accepted defeat even before announcement of poll results he addedThe INDIA bloc parties are contesting the Lok Sabha polls against each other in 25 per cent seatsCan you trust such people he asked people at the rallyAfter June 4 an allout fight will break out among the INDIA bloc members You need to teach them a lesson in elections Modi saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for 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