NEW DELHI: In a scathing assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday accused him of reducing the dignity of public discourse and the gravity of the workplace of the PM by giving “hateful speeches” throughout the ballot marketing campaign. In an attraction to voters of Punjab forward of the seventh-phase of Lok Sabha polls on June 1, Singh asserted that solely the Congress can guarantee growth-oriented progressive future the place democracy and Structure will probably be safeguarded.
The senior Congress chief additionally hit out on the BJP authorities for imposing an “ill-conceived” Agniveer scheme on the armed forces. “The BJP thinks that the worth of patriotism, bravery and repair is simply 4 years. This exhibits their faux nationalism,” he mentioned in a letter to voters of Punjab.
Mounting an assault on Modi, Singh mentioned, “I’ve been keenly following the political discourse throughout this election marketing campaign. Modi ji has indulged in probably the most vicious type of hate speeches, that are purely divisive in nature. Modi ji is the primary prime minister to decrease the dignity of public discourse, and thereby the gravity of the workplace of the prime minister.
“No prime minister prior to now has uttered such hateful, unparliamentary and coarse phrases, meant to focus on both a particular part of the society or the opposition. He has additionally attributed some false statements to me. I’ve by no means in my life singled out one group from the opposite. That’s the sole copyright of the BJP,” the previous prime minister mentioned.
Modi had accused Singh of claiming that Muslims have the primary proper on the nation’s assets. Singh mentioned folks of India are seeing via all of this. “This narrative of dehumanisation has now reached its peak. It’s now our obligation to avoid wasting our beloved nation from these forces of discord,” Singh mentioned within the letter.
