Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge hits out at BJP for diverting basic issues, coining slogans
Hindustan Times quoted Kharge as saying. Kharge also asked his party leaders to explain to the people that such slogans would not bring progress to the country. “Nowadays the government is selling the dream of ‘3rd largest economy’.
The country will not progress through slogans. We have to explain to the public that these are slogans to hide failures. The government thinks that it will hide failures like Himalaya by spending crores of rupees on events and advertisements," Kharge added.
ALSO READ: Amit Shah slams Nitish-Lalu ‘oil-water' alliance, says ‘They changed UPA name to INDIA because…’ After its reconstitution on 20 August, the Congress president at its first meeting of the CWC listed several raging issues, demanded a caste census, and reminded the party of its immediate challenge– the upcoming assembly and Lok Sabha elections. At the same time, Kharge also questioned the BJP’s exuberance over the G20 Summit and said: “We all are seeing how the government is engrossed in its praise after the G20 event. ₹4,000 crore was spent in Delhi on the G20 meeting to be held by rotation and now Brazil has got the leadership of G20 in rotation." Kharge pointed out that from 1953 itself, India’s status in the world began to develop while quoting India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s speech “Although we neither have any great military power nor any good economic or financial power, yet the respect of this country in the panchayat of nations is increasing day by day.
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