The Congress said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign is getting” more desperate”. “With four phases of the elections now concluded… Mr. Modi’s farewell is exactly three weeks away,” Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X.
“The PM’s campaign is getting ever more desperate…. The ground reality for his party has been so difficult that he has turned on his friends, and for the first time ever, implicitly acknowledged his government’s nexus with their businesses,” he alleged.
Moreover, he felt that the BJP’s graph continues on it is relentless downward trajectory: South mein saaf; North, West, aur East mein half. He claimed that the BJP will be wiped out in southern states and its strength will reduce to half in other regions.
The Congress leader reminded that PM Modi has even stopped paying his “customary lip service to vikas” and the agenda for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections has been set entirely by the Congress and Rahul Gandhi. As polling concluded on Monday in the fourth phase of the seven-phase elections, Ramesh claimed that “a wave is brewing in favour of the INDIA coalition”.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi holding a roadshow in his Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, Ramesh asked why after 10 years as MP and PM, Varanasi has not got a single new government hospital or a new Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya or Kendriya Vidyalaya.
He said even after 10 years of Modi representing Varanasi and the launching of the Swachh Bharat Yojana, Modi has been unable to eradicate manual scavenging from even his own constituency and claimed “25 people lost their lives due to manual scavenging” in Varanasi.
“Maybe this is not surprising – in his book “Karmayog,” Mr. Modi justified manual scavenging, terming it a “spiritual experience” for the Valmiki community.
Moreover, Ramesh recalled that Varanasi Port was inaugurated in early 2019, after an expenditure of thousands of crores of rupees, and for handling an estimated 3.55 million metric tons of cargo. But, by march 2020, he said it was handling less than 0.008% of that,
First Varanasi residents had to suffer the indignity of being “gifted” this project – even though it was funded through their own tax money. “Now, they have to suffer the indignity of a non-functional port. As of 2021, the Double Anyay Sarkar has decided to privatise this failure, and to nobody’s surprise, Adani Ports was the only bidder”, he added.