(LiveMint)
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of promoting corruption, showing a lack of concern for farmers and youth, and favouring selected industrialists and fraudsters.
Speaking at a public meeting in Mangaluru, Gandhi said that the BJP had offered money to win recent assembly elections in the North-East and other states. The BJP will “kill, burn and bribe” for power, he added.Gandhi and senior Congress leaders are on a two-day tour of coastal and southern Karnataka as part of the party’s Janashirvada Yatre to campaign for assembly elections due later this year.
Gandhi’s visit comes when the BJP is campaigning heavily in the communally sensitive region to consolidate the Hindu vote. The BJP claims recent killings and attacks against Hindu right-wing organizations were communally motivated.
