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Narendra Modi's campaign is about himself, has he forgotten he is PM of India?, says P Chidambaram

Attacking Narendra Modi, P Chidambaram said that Prime Minister is not talking about joblessness, lack of investment because he has no answers to the hard reality.

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Senior Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday questioned if Narendra Modi has forgotten that he is Prime Minister of India, and said his campaign in Gujarat is about himself.

The former minister made the remarks in a series of tweets after Modi launched an attack on Congress party during his rallies in Gujarat on Monday.

Pushing the BJP's campaign in Gujarat into high gear, Modi had said he is ready to sell tea but will never sell the country as he asked Rahul Gandhi why he had applauded the release of LeT chief Hafiz Saeed.

 

"Mr Modi's campaign is about himself, his past and the alleged disdain of Gujarat and Gujaratis. Has he forgotten he is Prime Minister of India?," said P Chidambaram.

Stating that the Gujarat election is not about Modi, the individual, Chidambaram said, "It is about the promised achhe din that has not come in 42 months."

The Congress leader also said that Modi is not talking about joblessness, lack of investment, collapse of SMEs, stagnant exports and price rise because he has no answers to the hard reality.

"Modi has forgotten that Gandhiji was an Indian and son of Gujarat; Gandhiji was, and is, revered as Father of the Nation; and Gandhiji's chosen instrument to lead the freedom struggle was the Congress party. PM and BJP may now desperately embrace Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, but the redoubtable Sardar had rejected the BJP's parent RSS and its divisive ideology," he said in another tweet.

 

Modi, who started his high voltage campaign with rallies in Bhuj in Kutch district, Jasdan in Rajkot, Chalala in Amreli and Kadodara near Surat, took on the opposition Congress on issues related to China, Lashkar-e-Taiba's Hafiz Saeed, the surgical strike as well as corruption.

Without directly accusing the Congress of fanning the protests, Modi said the opposition had done everything to 'disturb' the BJP's Anandiben Patel-led government.

He asked the people of Gujarat not to forgive Congress leaders as they had levelled baseless allegations on the 'son of Gujarat' who has a stainless public life.

 

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