NEW DELHI: Hinting at a fresh crackdown against benami properties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday ridiculed the ruling Congress in Himachal Pradesh by likening it to “termites” and urging voters in the hill state to wipe out the party by giving an unequivocal mandate to the BJP in the November 9 Assembly elections.
He said that the Congress is worried as illegal assets of its leaders will not be spared. “The time has come to return to the poor what had been robbed of them... I am going to create a situation that they (Congress leaders) will not be able to reclaim their benami assets,” Mr Modi said.
Mr Modi claimed that the Congress has already conceded defeat and has left the field open for the BJP. “No senior Congress leader has come here to campaign.
They have already left the field leaving everything on fate,” he said. The BJP has made the fight against corruption its poll plank in the state. Mr Modi said that there is anger amongst the people of Himachal Pradesh and they will give a befitting reply to the Congress for its sins.
