: Modi targets Rahul over his north-south remarks, lashes out at Congress for divide,lie and rule #IndiaNEWS #Latest News PUDUCHERRY: Attacking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent north-south

Modi targets Rahul over his north-south remarks, lashes out at Congress for divide,lie and rule #IndiaNEWS #Latest News
PUDUCHERRY: Attacking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his recent north-south remarks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday alleged the partys policy was to divide, lie and rule.
Not mincing words, he said the Congress culture of feudal politics, dynasty politics, patronage politics was ending and people all over the country were rejecting the party.
He also expressed shock over Gandhis contention that there was no dedicated fisheries ministry.
They are gold, silver and bronze medal winners in telling lies, Modi said addressing a public meeting in poll-bound Puducherry, as he said people of the union territory were celebrating the freedom from misgovernance of Congress.
Modi hit out at former Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy, implying he headed a high command government that served the interests of a few Congress leaders in Delhi.
He also slammed him for lying about the complaint made by a woman against the government during the Congress leaders visit here a fortnight ago.
Pitching Puducherry as a region with potential in various sectors, he said the NDA wanted to make it the BEST, saying the acronym meant the UT being a hub of Business, Education, Spirituality and Tourism.
Training his guns against the Congress, whose party-led government fell on Monday after it was reduced to minority in the wake of resignations, he said the congress culture you saw in Puducherry for five years is how the party works nationally.
Our colonial rulers had the policy of divide and rule. Congress has a policy of divide, lie and rule. Sometimes their leaders put region against region, sometimes they put community against community.
They are gold, silver and bronze medal winners in telling lies, he said, apparently referring to Gandhis recent statement in Kerala.
During his Kerala visit on Tuesday, Gandhi had said he was used to a different type of politics in north India and coming to the southern state was very refreshing as people are interested in issues, which drew condemnation from the BJP, whose leaders accused him of an opportunistic anti-North bias.
Modi also took on Gandhi over his statement that there was no dedicated fisheries ministry at the Centre, adding the NDA government had set it up in 2019.
Congress leaders says we will make a fisheries ministry. I was shocked. The truth is, it is the current NDA government that had made a ministry for fisheries in 2019.
The budget allocated for fisheries has grown more than 80 per cent in two years, he said, adding the earlier NDA dispensation under the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee had established a ministry for the tribal communities as well.
Referring to the BJPs sweep of the Gujarat municipal polls, he said the number of wards won by the saffron party was ten times that of his partys archrival Congress.