jabalpur: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday that he had full faith that the people would not vote for a party which endorses divisiveness.
Addressing a public meeting at the Ravi Shankar Shukla stadium, ahead of the November 25 assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh the PM said that Sardar Patel had banned the organistaion from which BJP derives its ideology for indulging in communalism. To the crowd he said, “I have full faith that you will not vote for a party that endorses divisiveness.”
He further said, “BJP has begun praising senior Congress leaders. They should also learn something from these leaders too.”
The PM also accused senior leaders of the BJP for twisting history and blamed the main opposition for resorting to falsehoods for political gains.
In an apparent attack on BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for 2014 General Elections, the PM said, “A big BJP leader frequently distorts historical facts and once in his enthusiasm to attack Congress, he misrepresented facts about a leader who is respected a lot in BJP.”
Going further, he said that political parties should indulge in constructive work, rather than resorting to personal attacks. “We are seeing a lot of negative politics in the last few months and the standard of political debate has gone down.”
The PM exhorted the people of Madhya Pradesh to defeat Shivraj Singh Chouhan government and blamed the BJP government in the state of failing on the developmental front. Prime Minister also expressed concern at the falling standards of political discourse in the country and said the BJP was only interested in personal attacks on other leaders.
“It is good for our democracy that political parties have enthusiasm. But it should be for constructive work. This should be used to tell people what good they will do if voted to power. It seems to me, though, that the enthusiasm of BJP leaders is all about condemning others,” he said.
“In the last few months, we are seeing a lot of negative politics and the standard of political debate has gone down drastically,” the prime minister said.
Modi has attracted a lot of criticism for his personal jibes at Congress leaders, including party chief Sonia Gandhi and her son and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
He also compared the achievements of BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh with that in the rest of the nation.
“Poverty in India has reduced three-fold... Polio has been eradicated for two years now... In Madhya Pradesh, infant mortality is the highest and 20 states are ahead of MP in literacy,” he told voters.
“I have come to tell you about the work you have seen the Congress do for nine years. Our goal is economic progress that brings prosperity to all. I ask all those who say we have not worked hard enough to analyse our track record,” the prime minister said.
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