Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a strong salvo
of accusation against the Congress in the ongoing election season, as he called
Rahul Gandhi moorkhon ke sardar or the leader of stupid people over the latter’s
remark that mobile phones in Bharat were mostly ‘made in China’.
Saying that Bharat now exports mobile phones worth
over ₹1 lakh crore, the PM said, “Yesterday, a Congress’s wise man was saying
that the people of the country only have made in China mobile. Arre ‘moorkhon
ke sardar’, which world do you live in? Congress leaders are afflicted with the
mental disease of ignoring India’s achievements. I wonder what foreign glasses
they have worn that they are not able to see in Bharat.”
He asserted, “When the Congress was in power, Bharat’s
manufacturing of mobile phones was under ₹20,000 crore. Today, Bharat’s industry
has grown to over ₹3.5 lakh crore. Bharat is also exporting mobile phones worth
₹1 lakh crore.”
Gandhi, one of the foremost critics of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and his government’s policies, said in an election rally that his
party wants to make Bharat a manufacturing hub.
“You see behind your mobile phone’s back, your shirt,
your shoes – you will find ‘Made in China’ written there. Have you seen behind
the camera and shirts ‘made in Madhya Pradesh’ tags? This is what we want to
do,” he said.
In another rally in the State today, PM Modi said remarked,
“I can see a large number of people attending this meeting with many of them
standing out in the sun as the arrangements made for the rally fell a little
short as compared to the turnout. A storm is blowing in the state that will
uproot Congress’s ‘tambu’ (tent) in the State.”
He also accused the Congress of looting the State
during its tenure in Madhya Pradesh.
NE Watch Desk
