Panaji: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his ‘Covid Spread Paap’ remarks. She attacked Modi questioned rallies that were being conducted during covid not the reason for the spike in cases?
Narendra Modi accused the party and said that Congress gave free train tickets to migrants to leave Maharashtra which lead to the spread of Covid in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. On this Priyanka Gandhi asks if PM Modi wanted the poor to be left helpless when they were returning to their homes on foot.
Speaking to media persons on Panaji, the Congress leader said, “People whom he had deserted, who had no way of returning to their homes, who were coming back on foot – did he want that nobody should help them? What did Modi Ji want? What does he want?”
“What about the big rallies he did?” she remarked while alleging that PM Modi conducted rallies during Covid.
Modi slammed opposition and said that they sinned by asking migrants to travel during a pandemic. He said, “When health experts were telling people to stay where they are, you sinned by telling migrants you would give them tickets. You encouraged people (from Bihar and other) to travel. The Delhi government too organized buses to make migrants travel. The result – the pandemic spread in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Punjab. What kind of politics is this?”
Listing the states from where Congress is out of power since years, PM Modi said, “Take, for instance, people of Nagaland voted for you in 1998, Since then you didn’t win. Odisha also hasn’t voted for you for 24 years. Goa hasn’t voted for you as a majority for years. In Bengal, they voted for you in 1972, in Tamil Nadu, too, they voted last for you in 1962.”
Further, he says that he has decided to stay in power for 100 years. “From your words, from your actions, it seems to me that you have decided that you don’t want to come to power for 100 years. So I have also prepared for it,” says PM Modi.
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