In Shiv Sena hub, Modi calls Congress a vine that betrays supporters

Campaigning in Maharashtra for the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (April 20) called the Congress a vine without roots or branches which sucks dry those who support it.

Addressing an election rally at Parbhani in Marathwada region, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said the Lok Sabha elections now on were about making India a developed and self-reliant country.

Modi’s assurance

In just 10 years of his rule, Modi said India had covered a long road of development.

“Your dreams are my dreams,” he told the crowd in Parbhani, where Mahadev Jankar, president of Rashtriya Samaj Paksha, is pitted against sitting MP Sanjay Jadhav of the Shiv Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray.

The Parbhani Lok Sabha constituency will go to the polls on April 26.

Attacks Congress

This is the first parliamentary election to make India the third largest economy in the world, he said.

“Congress is a vine that doesn't have roots or branches. It sucks dry those who lend support to it,” Modi said.

Modi said his government would build three crore houses for the poor in the country, stressing that he had lived a life of poverty and understood the pains of the poor.

(With agency inputs)