Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Monday said that the country will be free of Congress on May 23 when the counting of votes of the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections will take place.
While addressing election rallies in Kaithal and Gurugram districts, the Chief Minister charged Congress president Rahul Gandhi with misleading the people with his Garibi Hatao slogan which is being used by the opposition since past 70 years.
Manohar Lal said that the Congress had been giving Garibi Hatao slogan since the tenure of Jawaharlal Lal Nehru. The slogan passed through the regimes of Indira Gandhi, her son Rajiv Gandhi and now his son Rahul Gandhi was giving the same slogan, he said.
The slogan continues even today because no work had been done to eradicate poverty by the Congress all these years, the Chief Minister said adding the Congress had been all through misleading the masses.
In his election rally in Kaithal, Manohar Lal said that Prime Minister Narendar Modi is the chowkidar of the Country and he is the chowkidar of Haryana.
Attacking the INLD, Manohar Lal said that during their regimes there was bidding for jobs. Now the jobs are being provided on merit, he added.
He said that loans were being disbursed to eligible youth within one hour and many had availed the benefit of bank loans. The BJP government had introduced a number of schemes for the women, including free cooking gas cylinders to poor women under the Ujjawala Scheme. He said that as chowkidar of Haryana neither he was indulging in any corrupt practice nor allowing anyone else to harass others through corruption.
Later, the Chief Minister addressed another rally in Kukrela village in Gurugram district under the “Connect to People” campaign and praised the Prime Minister for the all round development of the country.
He said that due to anti-satellite missile tested by India four days ago, the country had joined the elite club of China, the US and Russia. All the developments are taking place due to the futuristic policies of the Prime Minister, Manohar Lal added.
He said that the world leaders acknowledge the role of Narendar Modi in international affairs.
The entire world respects the Prime Minister and stands by the country due to the effective leadership provided by Modi, he added.
The Chief Minister at the end of his speech called upon the people to raise the slogan of Abki Baar Modi Sarkaar.