'Those Who Can't Win Polls..': PM Modi's Dig At Sonia Gandhi For Taking Rajya Sabha Route To Parliament

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a thinly veiled dig at Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and said people who cannot win elections fled the ground and took the Rajya Sabha route to Parliament. Addressing a public rally in Rajasthan’s Jalore, PM Modi said the country is punishing the Congress for its “sins” and the party that had once won 400 seats is unable to contest 300 seats in the Lok Sabha election 2024.

Without taking Sonia Gandhi’s name, the Prime Minister listed other senior Congress leaders who went to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan and claimed those leaders didn’t work on the ground for the people of the state.

“Congress first sent a leader from South (KC Venugopal) to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. You sent Former PM Manmohan Singh to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. But did you see him in the state again? Another leader from the party has gone to Rajya Sabha from the state now. Those who can’t fight and win elections have come to Rajasthan this time. Congress hollowed the country by spreading the termite of ‘parivaarwad’ and corruption,” PM Modi said.

He further stressed that the youth of the country is so angry with Congress that it doesn’t want to see their face again.

“In the first phase of voting, half of Rajasthan has punished Congress. Rajasthan, which is full of patriotism, knows that Congress can never make India strong,” Modi said.

He said that the country does not want the conditions that existed before 2014 to return.

“The Congress has hollowed out the country by spreading termites of nepotism and corruption. And today the country is angry with Congress and is punishing it for these sins…The Congress party is itself to be blamed for its present condition… The party which had once won 400 seats is unable to contest 300 seats on its own,” he said.

Modi was addressing a public meeting in Bhinmal of Jalore district in support of BJP candidate Lumbaram Chaudhary.

There are 25 Lok Sabha seats in Rajasthan. The first phase of polling for 12 seats was held on April 19 and the remaining 13 will go to poll in the second phase on April 26.