PM counter attacks Congress in Lok Sabha

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New Delhi : PM Narendra Modi tore into main opposition party Congress virtually sounding the 2019 LS polls war saying the country has been suffering due to the wrong policies it has pursued since independence and that the party has spent time singing paeans to one family instead of focusing on people’s welfare.

Replying in the Lok Sabha to the motion of thanks on President’s address, PM Modi on February 7, 2018, said that the Congress Party divided India. For decades, one party devoted all its energies in singing paeans to one family, the PM said in his hard-hitting speech. The interests of the nation were over-looked just for the interests of one family, he said.

The PM said that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was denied the Prime Minister post even as 12 of the 15 committees set up for the purpose had favoured him for the post. Had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel been the first Prime Minister, a part of Kashmir would not have been under control of Pakistan, Modi said. Partition was result of the Congress’ wrong policies, he said amidst heavy slogan shouting by the opposition.

The PM also referred to the humiliation heaped on the then CM of Andhra Pradesh T Anjaih by the then Congress leadership at Hyderabad airport which led to emergence of Telugu Desam Party.