Lucknow: BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Sunday took the Congress-BJP war to a new low when he said “Ma-beta” (Sonia-Rahul) were competing with each other when it comes to telling lies.
“Ma-bete mein jhoot bolne ka competition chal raha hai. If the mother lies on Monday, the son makes sure that he tells double the lies on Tuesday. They do not even have dignity while telling lies,” he said while speaking at a series of rallies in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
Mr Modi said that Rahul Gandhi either lacked basic information or was fond of telling lies. “He said that if there was a Lokayukta in Gujarat, I would have been in jail. There is a Lokayukta in Gujarat and I am standing in front of you. Rahul bhaiyya then said that there was no RTI commissioner in Gujarat but there is a RTI commissioner in Gujarat. I wonder from where he gets his misinformation,” Mr Modi said.
Accusing Congress of “trying to hide in the bunker of secularism”, Mr Modi said that it was fighting for its survival with even a 100-seat mark in the new Lok Sabha appearing “an uphill task for it”. Reacting sharply to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s accusation that his election campaign was a “dangerous combination of religious fanaticism, power and money”, the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate said, “faced with certain defeat, fighting for its survival it is once again trying to hide in the bunker of secularism."
“Its last hope is to somehow cross the 100-seat mark which now appears an uphill task for it,” Mr Modi told a news agency. Responding to Mrs Gandhi’s dig that he was promising to make India a paradise, he said, “I have never claimed that I will make India a paradise and that I have solutions to all problems. I am sure even people do not expect this from me. People of India were not looking forward to miracles but they certainly deserve a stable, decisive and sensitive government.”
Asked about recent attacks on him by Priyanka Gandhi who had accused him of humiliating her family and husband Robert Vadra, the Gujarat Chief Minister said, “It is natural that a daughter would like to defend her mother. A sister would like to defend her brother. I do not have any problems with that.”
