Coimbatore: Lashing out at the DMK-Congress electoral combine for the April 18 Lok Sabha elections at multiple levels, BJP leader and Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that a "vote for Congress and DMK is a vote for higher taxes", with more burden falling on the middle class. He also slammed the two allies on issues related to nation's security and women's safety.
Addressing a huge NDA election rally here this evening, Mr Modi, took a swipe at the Congress election manifesto, which the DMK has also endorsed. Alluding to how they would find the funds for the ‘minimum income guarantee’ programme for the poor without mentioning ‘Nyay’ promised in the Congress manifesto, Mr Modi said that the two parties has “plans for burdening the middle class”.
Hitting out at the Congress manifesto for diluting the punishment for economic offences by taking the stand that ‘bail is rule and jail is exception’, Mr Modi said he was not surprised since the ‘Recounting Minister’ was at the helm in the (manifesto) drafting committee. As this ‘Recounting Minister’ and his party bosses “need bail for their own existence”, such a promise in the manifesto was understandable, he said.
While the middle class had played a “great role” in India’s growth and development, Mr Modi said the Congress manifesto “does not mention the middle class even once.”
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