AMN / BANGALORE
Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi today ‘praised’ the style of PM Narendra Modi Speech saying ‘Woh Bhashan bahut achha dete hain lekin Bhashan se pet nahi bharta, bimar ko dawai nahi milti”
“PM Modi is very good speaker, but his speeches cannot fill the stomachs of people… you want dal chawal for that… lectures don’t heal the sick. You need health centres for that,” she said.
Appearing after a gap of two years, for election rally Sonia Gandhi today to seek votes for the Congress in Karnataka.
“I know you will not let the Narendra Modi government succeed in the May 12 polls. You will make the Congress win by a majority,” she told the crowd at Vijaypura.
Highlighting the welfare measures of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s government, considered one of the strongest points by the Congress, she said: “You must have heard that Siddaramaiah’s government has made efforts to provide subsidies on food because we think even the poorest have the right to proper food and health.”
“Modi-ji is besotted with Congress-free India. Leave Congress-free India, he cannot even tolerate anyone in front of him,” Mrs Gandhi added. Rahul Gandhi earlier tried to make the point, saying he does not wish for a BJP-free India.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is seeking a second term in face of a tough challenge by the BJP.
This morning, the party’s state unit welcomed Mrs Gandhi with a jeer that raised her Italian origin again.
PM Modi, who spoke in Vijaypura today, had earlier targetted Mrs Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. “If you bring the mother (Sonia) to Karnataka and she does something, then maybe the deposits (of Congress candidates) can be saved. This is what Congress leaders have started saying,” the Prime Minister said.