NewzVille Desk
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge today lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying, the Prime Minister lacks courage and his morale is broken, that is why he avoided speaking in the Lok Sabha.
He also strongly denied the Prime Minister’s charge that the Congress had insulted Sikhs, pointing out it was the Congress that had given the country its first Sikh Prime Minister.
Responding to Prime Minister Modi’s reply to the discussion on Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address, Kharge alleged that he (the PM) lacked the courage to answer the questions raised by the opposition.
He said that the government was deliberately stalling the functioning of the Parliament so that it would not have to answer important questions.
Kharge alleged that the Prime Minister’s speech was full of “repeated falsehoods”. He maintained that the Prime Minister avoided important issues and did not reply to a single question raised during the discussion on President’s Address.
Refuting the government’s claim that the autobiography of former Army Chief Manoj M Naravane was not published, he said, it was very much available everywhere.
He pointed out, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh straightway denied the existence of the book instead of replying to the issue being raised by Rahul Gandhi.
Kharge lashed out at the Prime Minister for trying to distort the facts about the conversation between Rahul Gandhi and Ravneet Bittu.
Rejecting the Prime Minister’s charge that Congress insulted Sikhs, he said, the Congress had appointed Dr Manmohan Singh as the first Sikh Prime Minister of the country.
Taking a dig at the government claiming intelligence inputs and advising Prime Minister to avoid speaking in the Lok Sabha, the Congress president asked why such intelligence fails when terror attacks take place in the country, people get lynched, and Dalits and Adivasis are targeted.
Maintaining that Modi’s morale had broken, he said he was afraid of facing the Lok Sabha. He pointed out, it was the treasury benches which were repeatedly getting the Lok Sabha stalled. He said, Prime Minister was also disturbed over his name having cropped up in the Epstein files. He alleged that Modi had surrendered to US President Donald Trump who forced a trade deal that would harm Indian farmers and benefit American farmers.
Kharge strongly lashed out at Modi for his baseless criticism of country’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, saying he is the founder of modern India who laid strong foundation for India’s progress, in contrast to Modi who, he said, lacks both vision and ideology.
