Congress failed due to its arrogance, betrayed DMK: PM Modi

Bengaluru, May 10. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a sharp attack on Congress on Sunday. He accused Congress of blaming ‘the whole world’ for its electoral defeat and said all this is due to its arrogance. Additionally, he alleged that the party has also betrayed its ally DMK in Tamil Nadu.

Addressing a public rally near HAL Airport in Bengaluru, PM Modi said that while BJP is achieving electoral victories, Congress (which had over 400 seats about 40 years ago) has not been able to cross the 100-seat mark in the last three Lok Sabha elections.

“However, the arrogance of Congress and its supporters is so high that they blame the entire world for their defeat.”

Launching a scathing attack, PM Modi said, “They blame the constitution, democracy, constitutional institutions, and the courts. In my political career, I have never seen any mainstream political party behave like this. They are so steeped in defeat that they have no option left but to use foul language.”

He said, “For BJP governments, people’s welfare is everything. 25 crore people have come out of poverty. Our slogan is ‘Sabka Kalyan’ (Welfare for All), and our model is ‘Sushasan’ (Good Governance). This is why people are giving BJP a chance to serve them for a second and third term.”

He said, “Congress governments in states never return to power for a second term. Within a year of coming to power, people start getting angry with them. This happens because Congress only knows how to deceive. Their ‘guarantees’ are also false. In the Congress party’s book, there is no chapter called ‘Good Governance’.”

Tauntingly, he said, “We have been seeing the same in Karnataka for the past three years. Instead of solving people’s problems, most of this government’s time has been spent resolving its internal conflicts. No one can say how long the Chief Minister will remain in power or whether another leader will get a chance. Their future remains uncertain.”

PM Modi said, “Not only this, I saw that during the election process in Tamil Nadu, their ecosystem sitting in Delhi was trying to mislead the country. Even after the results came on May 4, no government has been formed in Kerala yet.”

Commenting further, he said, “This ecosystem remains silent on the matter of Kerala. They themselves don’t know whether they will have two Chief Ministers for five years or five Chief Ministers, one each year. They are unable to reach any conclusion.”

The Prime Minister said, “Congress makes promises to its own leaders and then betrays them. They did the same in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. The same game is going on in Karnataka, and they are doing the same in Kerala.

“You will be surprised to know what is happening in Himachal Pradesh. They are not letting such matters come to the media. They are unable to even pay their employees’ salaries.

PM Modi said, “In Telangana too, the situation is such that farmers are being forced to commit suicide. Wherever Congress is in power, either the government treasury is looted for the politics of appeasement, or there is infighting over the looted money.

“Congress has earned an identity as a deceitful party, and that is why, whenever it gets a chance, it betrays its own leaders. That is why it is said that there is no one whom Congress has not betrayed.

“In Tamil Nadu, Congress had strong relations with DMK for 30 years. Congress remained in power only because of the alliance with DMK.”
He said that the Congress-led government at the center could only function with the support of DMK.

“But what happened? Despite such long-standing relations and DMK always working in the interest of the Congress party, as soon as the power dynamics shifted, Congress stabbed DMK in the back the moment it got a chance.”