Mincing no words to dub the Prime Minister as “a master of deceit and disinformation”, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Friday challenged Narendra Modi to show even one instance of a promise fulfilled by his government in the past five years, which had witnessed India plunge into utter ruin and devastation under his anti-people and divisive policies.
Taking Modi head-on over series of brazen lies he had unleashed from the dais in a day before, Capt Amarinder said that the “jumlebaaz Prime Minister has brought the nation to its nadir with his deceptions and fabrications”, and was staring at his moment of judgement at the hands of the people, who were set to throw him out of power for good.
Capt Amarinder, disputing Modi’s every single statement in Gurdaspur, said that the Prime Minister had stooped to abominable levels in a desperate bid to mislead the people in the face of his imminent defeat in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
“Modi has once again lied on every issue, from 1984 riots and Kartarpur corridor to the farm debt waiver,” declared Capt Amarinder, adding that the Prime Minister was talking nonsense to hide all-round failure of his own government in the past five years.
Capt Amarinder questioned Modi’s studious silence on the BJP, RSS workers named in the Tilak Marg Police Station FIR related to the 1984 riots against the Sikhs, while trying desperately to drag the Gandhi family into the matter even though no fingers had been pointed at them.
“And what about 2002 riots in Gujarat which happened right under your nose and in which your own party members were squarely blamed and named,” asked Capt Amarinder demanding to know why the Prime Minister continued to remain silent on the issue.
Capt Amarinder also lambasted the Prime Minister for trying to seize credit for Kartarpur Corridor, which the Congress had been actively pursuing since the days of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, right down to Dr Manmohan Singh. “I myself had been taking up the issue with Pakistan for years,” said the Chief Minister, asking Modi to reveal what he had done to get the project going.
“You have not even given a single paisa so far for the celebration of the 550th parkash purab of Guru Nanak Dev despite our repeated pleas and request, and yet claim to be the guardians of the Sikhs and their religion,” he said.
The Chief Minister further lashed out at Modi for accusing the Congress of handing over Kartarpur to Pakistan, calling upon the Prime Minister to get his history right before shooting through his mouth.
“The Radcliff Line for the partition of Punjab and Bengal was drawn by the British, which every Indian worth his name would know,” said Capt Amarinder, in a snide to the Prime Minister.
“The Congress government in Punjab had fulfilled more promises in 21 months than the Modi government at the Centre had done in five years,” said Capt Amarinder trashing every single allegation made by the Prime Minister on the failure of the State Government to implement its election promises.
Capt Amarinder said that while the Punjab Government had implemented most of its poll promises, including jobs for youth, drugs elimination, industrial development, apart from farm debt waiver, in less than two years, the Modi government had not delivered on an even an iota of its promises.
“Far from fulfilling these promises, the Modi Government had plunged India into a deep financial crisis, with prices of essentials escalating out of control,” said Capt Amarinder while adding that corruption had peaked with the Rafale deal just one instance of how the incumbent Central Government was helping a handful of business houses make money at the cost of the poor masses.
“One wonders with what face Modi intends to go back to the people of India to seek re-election a few weeks from now,” quipped Capt Amarinder dubbing the Prime Minister as the “worst leader India had ever had since independence”.