PATNA: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi "jhoothon ka sardar" (master of lies), alleging that he did not fulfil any promise he had made to the voters.
"He (PM) had promised to give two crore jobs to youths every year, bring black money stashed in Swiss banks, increase the farmers' income, and make the cities smart. Did he do anything?" Kharge said at an election meeting.
Without naming NDA or Modi, he said: "Galti se agar wo aa gaye, toh dictator banke aapko ghulam bana denge (If by mistake they form the govt, they will make you slaves under a dictator)."
Claiming that INDIA bloc, and not NDA, would form the next govt at the Centre, Kharge said Congress regimes in states did what they promised before assembly polls. "We waived loans of farmers worth Rs 72,000 crore," Kharge said.
On the unemployment issue, Kharge said former Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Prasad Yadav alone gave around five lakh jobs to the youths in a single state. "Just imagine how many jobs could be given in the whole country," he said. "This time neither Modi nor Nitish (Kumar) would come to office...Is baar gathbandhan aayega (INDIA bloc will form the next govt)," he said.
Slamming CM Nitish Kumar for going back to the NDA fold, Kharge advised Tejashwi not to take him back to the Grand Alliance in future.
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