NEW DELHI, DEC 14
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is misleading the people for the last six years through giving false promises and he utterly failed to fulfil them, said former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Saturday. Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act would ‘shred the soul of India’.
Addressing at the ‘Bharat Bachao’ (Save India) rally organised by the Congress at the Ramlila grounds, he said that Modi had promised to take the country’s economy to $5 trillion by 2024, double income of farmers’ and provide two crore new jobs every year for youths.
“Prime Minister Modi showered lofty promises to people. Now it has been proved that all these were false and he has failed in fulfilling all the promises made and the people of the country were misled,” Manmohan said.
The rally was attended among others by top Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, besides Congress Chief Ministers Kamal Nath, Ashok Gehlot, Bhupesh Baghel.
Manmohan urged the people to strengthen the Congress party and the hands of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in order “to take the country forward in the right direction”.
“It is our duty to strengthen the Congress party and strengthen the hands of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, so that we can take the country forward in the real sense,” he noted.
He also urged Congress workers present at the rally in large numbers to take the message of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to every nook and corner of the country.
“It is your responsibility. The enthusiasm in you will surely help give a new direction to the country,” Manmohan said.
Sonia slams Modi-Shah over CAB
While speaking at the rally, Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act would “shred the soul of India”.
But Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah weren’t bothered, she said.
India’s Northeast in particular has witnessed angry demonstrations against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which fast-tracks naturalisation for non-Muslim minority refugees who faced religious persecution in Bangladesh — which borders a number of Northeast states — and two other Muslim-majority nations.
Critics say the law deliberately discriminates against Muslims, and indigenous people in the Northeast worry that it endangers their identity and livelihood.
