Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a “royal magician” dig at the “prince” of Congress, Rahul Gandhi over his remarks promising to remove poverty from the country in a single stroke. “Where was this royal magician hiding for so many years? It has been 50 years since his grandmother announced to remove poverty from the country,” PM Modi said while addressing a public rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad.
The prime minister’s statements came just hours after he unveiled the BJP’s poll manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Delhi.
PM Modi further accused the Congress of “running the government through remote for 10 years” and called Rahul Gandhi’s “will remove poverty with one stroke” remark a “mockery of the poor”.
“Before 2014, they ran the government through remote for 10 years and are saying that they have got ‘jhatke vala’ mantra, where did they get this ‘jhatke vala’ mantra from? Tell me, is this not a mockery of the poor? Is this not an insult to the poor? They make such claims and because of this they become laughing stock and the country does not take them seriously…” he said.
#WATCH | Madhya Pradesh: On Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks, PM Modi says, "…Desperate Congress is making such announcements which the Congress leaders themselves are not understanding. The prince of Congress has just announced something that will make you laugh. He… pic.twitter.com/ei8P8SERgV— ANI (@ANI) April 14, 2024
Last week, while addressing an election rally in Rajasthan, Rahul Gandhi had said that if the Congress is voted to power in the Centre, it would ensure that “poverty is erased in one stroke”.
“If you are below the poverty line, then every year Rs 1 lakh khatakhat khatakhat aata rahega aur ek jhatke se hum Hindustan se garibi ko mita denge (the amount will keep coming and with one stroke we will remove poverty from India),” the Congress leader had said.
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