Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally emphasized on ‘brand Modi’ ahead of crucial assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh as he told a huge congregation of BJP workers in the capital Bhopal that ‘Modi means guarantee of fulfilling every guarantee’.
The PM referred to himself in third person ‘Modi’ multiple times during his speech, indicating that the Madhya Pradesh BJP will focus on ‘brand Modi’ during the upcoming assembly polls. Modi did not name any other leader including Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during his 51-minute speech; not even customarily at the beginning of his address.
The address came at an event that marked the conclusion of the five simultaneous pre-poll ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatras’ taken out in the state during the past fortnight by senior leaders of the party.
It also marked the birth anniversary of party ideologue Deendayal Upadhayay and aimed at charging up the workers for upcoming polls. This was PM Modi’s seventh visit to Madhya Pradesh in the past six months.
Modi highlighted the work done by the BJP government for the upliftment of the poor and deprived. His address focused on first-time voters, women voters and expectedly Congress-bashing.
Apart from the usual jibes of focus on a single family, corruption and appeasement politics, Modi said that now the ‘contract of Congress party is with urban naxals’. He said that the Congress destroyed all states it ruled.
“Shouldn’t we save MP from them? Otherwise, it will make MP ‘Bimaru’ state again. Do you want to destroy the future of the youth? Allow Congress leaders to loot all money meant for the state’s development? Congress does not have a vision of development and future. It has become like rusted iron that disintegrates in the rain.”
He also said that Congress only criticizes the good work done by the BJP government, including the digital India project, Vande Bharat project, good roads and even the new parliament buildings. It criticizes all the achievements of India and simply spreads negativity.
The PM further said that now the Congress has completely lost its political will and its leaders are silently sitting at home. “They are completely destroyed, have become bankrupt and now they have given out their party on contract. They have outsourced their policies and ideologies to a company. And who has this contract? It is with the urban Naxals and they are the ones calling the shots within the party. The party has become hollow on the ground and the workers are feeling this.
