PM Modi added the upcoming Lok Sabha polls would be about the choice between "trust and corruption, and about resolution and conspiracy".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday slammed the Congress party, terming its manifesto as a "hypocrisy document" which was "full of lies".
PM Modi added the upcoming Lok Sabha polls would be about the choice between "trust and corruption, and about resolution and conspiracy".
"Those who burn the Tricolour and insult it, raise slogans of breaking India into pieces, play in the hands of foreign forces and vandalise statues of Baba Saheb (Ambedkar), the Congress sympathises with them, too," PM Modi further said, while addressing a large gathering at Pasighat, about 220 km from the state capital of Itanagar -- his second rally in Arunachal Pradesh within a week.
Citing the Congress manifesto for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Modi said it had promised that every house would have electricity by 2009.
"However, till 2014 around 18,000 villages in the country were unelectrified... Just like them (the Congress), their manifesto is corrupt and full of lies. Therefore, it should be called hypocrisy document, not a manifesto," he added.
PM Modi also said, "With the NDA coming back to power in 2014, it fulfilled the promise of the Congress by illuminating 18,000 villages across the country within 1,000 days."
Congress president Rahul Gandhi had, on Tuesday, released his party's manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls, making job creation, addressing farm distress, bringing a single moderate rate of GST and giving Rs 72,000 per annum to poor families as key focus, if it comes to power.
The prime minister said unlike the Congress, the BJP never made false promises and kept its commitment of providing free LPG connection to nearly 60 crore women in the country, besides constructing toilets in every village and extending healthcare facilities under the 'Ayushmaan Bharat' scheme.
"Under the Ayushmaan Bharat Yojana, about three lakh people in Arunachal Pradesh were covered, who were provided free treatment to the tune of Rs 5 lakh per family," the prime minister said.
PM Modi added he did not claim to have completed all the developmental work since becoming the prime minister, but "I can say that I am a man who can withstand any challenge the country faces, and plan and execute all works with dedication and commitment".
The prime minister charged that the Congress was fooling farmers in the name of votes, whereas the BJP government has always been with them.
PM Modi asserted he was committed to safeguard the tribal tradition and culture. He added he had visited the region "more than 30 times" in comparison to his predecessors, because of the love and affection he shares with the people of the Northeast.
Elections to Arunachal Pradesh's 57 assembly seats and two parliamentary constituencies will be held simultaneously on April 11. Three BJP candidates were elected unopposed to the 60-member House, after the final date of withdrawal of candidature on March 28.
(With inputs from PTI)
