Targeting the party over Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s “poisonous snake” remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Congress and its leaders have so far insulted him 91 times in different ways.
Accusing the Congress of insulting the Lingayat community in Karnataka as well, Modi said the party had also abused Babasaheb Ambedkar and Veer Savarkar. Hitting out at the Congress, the Prime Minister, who is on his first campaign tour to the state after the election schedule was announced on March 29, said people will respond to its abuses with votes and the more they malign the Bharatiya Janata Party, the more Only the lotus will bloom.
Modi said, “The Congress hates anyone who talks about the common man, exposes their (Congress) corruption and attacks their politics of selfishness. The Congress’s hatred against such people deepens. Even in this election, the Congress has once again started abusing me.