Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and three central agencies Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Income Tax Department are the ‘Five Pandavas’ against whom the Congress is fighting. . Mallikarjun Kharge, while campaigning for the November 17 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, said at an election rally in Bhopal that the central agencies are in the fray on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Mallikarjun Kharge said, “Congress has one candidate (per constituency), but BJP has four. There is one (party) candidate who is visible, but there are three others who are invisible…ED who is campaigning like a star campaigner like Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The second candidate is the CBI, which goes after the candidates (rivals) to weaken them and the third candidate is the Income Tax Department. Apart from these three, Modi and (Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh) are there, the Congress president said. There are also Chauhans…they are not like the ‘five Pandavas’ of ancient times but of today, who are trying to defeat us, but we have to teach them a lesson.
He alleged that elections are being held in Congress ruled Chhattisgarh, hence the ED is harassing the party leaders there and threatening Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel. He said, “This is not a democratic way nor is it a matter of equality, but this is how intimidation is going on.” Last week, the ED had claimed that it had recorded the statement of a ‘cash courier’. Which alleged that the promoters of Mahadev betting app paid Rs 508 crore to Baghel and this is a ‘subject of investigation’.
Criticizing BJP leaders who talk about ‘what Congress has done for the country’, Kharge said, “Congress has saved the country and its Constitution, due to which he has become the Chief Minister. These BJP leaders did not fight for the democracy and independence of the country but supported the British. If we had not made efforts, the picture of the country would have been different. He said that Congress leaders Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi sacrificed their lives for the country. Kharge said that the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh is ‘number one in corruption, farmer suicide, crime against women, malnutrition and unemployment’ but Congress will bring a change in this.
Kharge said, “They were in power in Madhya Pradesh for the last 18 years and in the country for ten years and call themselves a double engine government but they could not solve the problems of the people of the state.” Talking about ‘guarantees’ (poll promises), he said that the party will conduct caste-based census to find out the exact population of different castes and will make plans for them accordingly. Addressing a rally in Bhopal, Kharge questioned why Prime Minister Modi had not visited Manipur, where large-scale caste violence had occurred earlier this year, but he was visiting election-bound states including Madhya Pradesh and Telangana. Are.
He said, “If BJP had come to power immediately after independence, it would have implemented Manusmriti in India. He also accused the BJP of opening a ‘shop of hatred’ compared to Congress’s ‘shop of love’. Kharge said, ‘Prime Minister Modi has not gone to Manipur where fights took place, houses were looted, cars were burnt and houses were destroyed. Were ruined. But he is leaving Mizoram and going to Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Rajasthan where elections are to be held. Kharge told the public that Congress wants to keep inflation under control. He said, “Our government is being formed in Madhya Pradesh with more than 150 seats. We will control inflation.
The Congress President alleged that wherever there is peace, BJP wants to set fire there. He said, “They always keep matchsticks in their pockets and petrol in their hands… They have never talked about peace anywhere. If he had formed the country’s first government (after independence), he would have implemented Manu’s laws to make the rich richer and the poor poorer…”
Kharge said that the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru strengthened democracy, while Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar created the Constitution which gave everyone the right to vote. He said that Nehru also established big industries in Bhopal and other places which are now being sold to businessmen. He said, “People got lakhs of jobs in these industries… These are either being closed or sold to businessmen due to which employment has reduced… This will also reduce jobs for reserved category people.” Has gone.