BENGALURU: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “running” the country from the Prime Minister's Office and with the help of bureaucrats. “The thinking of Modi is different. Modi thinks that the country can be run from Prime Minister’s Office and with the help of bureaucrats. I want to make a very pertinent point that the country cannot be run from the Prime Minister’s Office and with the help of bureaucrats,” he told party gram panchayat members here.
Mr Gandhi said his party has always worked for strengthening citizens, corporators, MLAs and MPs, but Mr Modi does quite the opposite. “Their (BJP) MPs do not speak in Lok Sabha, and we hear these MPs complaining that they are not being heard, but the Congress has always worked for strengthening the citizens of the country, coporators, MLAs and MPs. That is the difference between them and us," he added.
The Congress works for the weak and the poor, but the BJP works for select few corporates, said Mr Gandhi, now on a two-day visit to Karnataka to meet farmers in distress. He criticised the Modi government for not fulfilling the promises he made, including on recovery of black money. "The BJP government made many promises including bringing back black money. I ask which are the promises they have fulfilled in a year? What has he done for Karnataka," he asked.
