New Delhi: Congress launched a blistering assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and bombarded him with questions relating to his present Lok Sabha constituency as he filed his nomination for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi at present.
On the day PM Modi filed his nomination from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat, Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh took on the microblogging website ‘X’ and mentioned that the outgoing PM should reply for his “failures” in his constituency.
“Immediately’s questions: After spending Rs 20,000 crore, why has the Ganga gotten dirtier? Why has the PM deserted the Varanasi villages he had “adopted”? Why is the PM decided to destroy Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy in Varanasi,” he wrote in a publish on ‘X’.
Ramesh mentioned when he got here to Varanasi in 2014, Modi had mentioned “Maa Ganga ne mujhe bulaya hain” and promised to purify the waters of the Holy Ganga, however quickly after coming to energy, rebranded the present Operation Ganga as Namami Gange.
“Ten years later, the ‘Namami Gange’ venture has value the exchequer greater than Rs. 20,000 crore. Listed here are the outcomes: the variety of Polluted River Stretches has elevated from 51 to 66, 71% of monitoring stations have reported harmful micro organism at as much as 40 occasions greater than protected ranges, and antibiotic resistant micro organism have now been discovered within the waters.”
“The place has the 20,000 crore in taxpayer cash gone? How a lot has been siphoned off in corruption and mismanagement? How can the individuals of Varanasi belief a person who has given a jumla even to Ma Ganga,” the Congress chief requested.
He additionally mentioned exterior town of Varanasi lie eight villages that the PM had “adopted”, however a March 2024 floor report discovered that regardless of large guarantees of “sensible colleges”, well being services and housing, the villages have seen completely no progress in 10 years.
Domri village has virtually no pucca housing, he mentioned, including Nagepur village has extraordinarily shoddy roads.
Dalit communities in Jogapur and Jayapur haven’t any bogs and no water, and the flagship Nal Se Jal Scheme appears to have missed Parampur village solely, he claimed.
“The situation of Mr. Modi’s adopted villages tells us lots about his sense of responsibility, or lack thereof, in direction of serving his constituents. Why has the PM deserted his “adopted” villages? Is that this the true face of “Modi ki assure”,” he requested.
Ramesh additionally alleged that “It’s well-known that the outgoing PM’s ideology is that of Godse, not Gandhi”.
“He has taken his malicious hatred of the Father of our Nation to the extent of destroying the Sarwa Sewa Sangh, began by Acharya Vinobha Bhave, and related to personalities like Dr Rajendra Prasad, Lal Bahadur Shastri, and Jayaprakash Narayan,” he mentioned, including it has been rendering extraordinary public service to the nation since 1955.
“It had been working on 13 acres of land, near the Varanasi Railway Station, for which it had full possession papers. It was evicted from its iconic campus in August 2023, and the land was taken over by the Indian Railways. Just one nook of the campus, occupied by the Gandhi Vidya Sansthan, stays untouched as a result of it had already been captured by the RSS.
“Why does the PM persist in his hypocrisy of praising Gandhiji overseas, whereas destroying Gandhian establishments at dwelling? Can he overtly admit his admiration for Godse over Gandhi,” Ramesh requested.
PM Modi, the sitting MP and BJP’s candiatate from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh filed his nomination papers on the district Justice of the Peace’s workplace. PM filed his nomination papers searching for a 3rd consecutive time period from the constituency and hoping to win with a document margin. Varanasi will go in for polling within the seventh and final section of the Lok Sabha polls on June 1. The counting of the votes will likely be held on June 4.
