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Karnataka Elections 2018: Dear PM Modi, calling Bengaluru garbage city is insulting; data nails your lies - Rahul Gandhi

In a brutal takedown of Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi today said that the Prime Minister calling Bengaluru a garbage city was insulting and that data nailed his ‘lies’. (LIVE UPDATES)

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In a brutal takedown of Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi today said that the Prime Minister calling Bengaluru a garbage city was insulting and that data nailed his ‘lies’. (LIVE UPDATES)

‘Dear PM, Calling Bengaluru, the garden city & the pride of India a "garbage city" is insulting. Building lies comes naturally to you, but you seem to find building cities very difficult. The data nails your lies (sic),’ Gandhi said in a tweet on Friday.

He also gave out the figures that showed that sharp difference between money allotted by the Congress and the BJP government for the urban infra funds for Karnataka. 

While the Congress had allocated Rs 6,570 crore for the state, the BJP had given just Rs 598 crore.

He said that the Congress-led UPA government had provided 1100% more funds for Karnataka cities compared to the Modi government.

 

Gandhi’s rebuttal came a day after the Prime Minister called the garden city as ‘garbage city’ during an election rally.

"The youth in Karnataka turned Bengaluru to a Silicon Valley, but the Congress government turned it into a valley of sin," PM Modi said at an election rally on the city outskirts in poll-bound Karnataka.

He said the talented pool of youngsters in Karnataka made this city the computer capital, but in the last five years, the Congress government turned Bengaluru into "crime capital."

The youth with entrepreneurial tendency made Bengaluru a startup, but Congress turned it into "pothole club," PM Modi said.

He said the Congress government wanted to build a steel bridge in Bengaluru, but in reality, it was a "steal bridge."

The government had planned a steel bridge to ease traffic congestion in the heart of the city but facing severe protests dropped the move.

PM Modi lauded the efforts of BJP workers and citizens whose resistance, he said, forced Congress to drop the project.

The Prime Minister said the party was working towards promoting "ease of doing business, "but Congress is ensuring ease of doing murder" in Karnataka.

PM Modi was apparently referring to a spate of killings of BJP, RSS and Hindu activists, which the saffron party has blamed on the "Jehadi forces", accusing the Siddaramaiah government of being soft towards them.

He said Bengaluru was earlier a city of lakes, but Congress transformed it into a "city of burning lakes." Bellandur lake, the city's largest body water replete with sewage, chemical effluents and construction debris, had burned for hours in February this year, causing anxiety to residents nearby and catching national attention.

PM Modi said Congress was trying to fool the people of Karnataka with its manifesto.

They had promised, in 2013, to build one super speciality hospital in every district, but in 2018, this got changed to one super specialty hospital for every three districts, he added.

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