(LiveMint)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates contesting next month’s Karnataka assembly election to strengthen booth-level activity, involve as many women party workers as men, focus on development and not get distracted by opposition propaganda.
Addressing party workers through the Narendra Modi app, the PM said that earlier governments were scared of discussing development as it can be measured. “They were busy dividing people on the basis of caste, religion, creed,” Modi said, in an apparent reference to the state’s ruling Congress party.
Karnataka goes to polls on 12 May. The Congress and BJP have locked horns over communal discord, corruption, job creation and vote bank politics, among others. Modi said Congress would use people for polls and then ignore them. “Can anyone deny that Congress’ culture in mainstream spoiled the country,” Modi said, adding that until the Congress culture is uprooted, mainstream politics in India can’t be cleaned.
