Vijayapura, Karnataka, India
PM Modi took another potshot at the Congress during the Karnataka election campaign in Vijayapura, asserting that the people will vote against the grand old party in the polls due this week.
"People have decided to remove Congress from Karnataka," PM Modi said, adding that the Congress has given up on the state.
The prime minister has been attacking Congress over the last several days ever since he took up the BJP's poll campaign on May 1st.
"Congress is dividing communities and spreading hatred," the prime minister told people at the rally. PM Modi also took up the plight of the farmers blaming the Congress for "ignoring" them.
"Karnataka ministers were in Delhi during the famine," he said, adding that people will punish the "Congress for its sins."
"Congress believes in divide and rule and his only looking to make excuses," he declared.
Earlier, while replying to a question from a person at a hotel in Bengaluru on whether he would take up the prime ministership if the Congress emerges as the single largest party in the 2019 general elections, Rahul Gandhi had emphatically said: "why not".