Team News Riveting
New Delhi, February 7
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Congress and termed the grand old party the “leader of tukde-tukde gang”.
Replying to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address in Lok Sabha today, Modi, without mentioning Rahul Gandhi, questioned the latter’s remarks made in the House last week in context of the Indian nation and said the Congress had “inherited the policy of divide-and-rule from the British and was using it on its bid to gain power”.
“Things were said in this House about the Indian nation. The nation was insulted by saying this word doesn’t exist in the Constitution. Why is the Congress insulting the nation? The nation is not a mere arrangement for governance. For us it’s a living entity and soul,” the Prime Minister said while referring to Gandhi’s statement in Lok Sabha that India was a union of states and the word nation was not mentioned in the Constitution.
Modi said the Congress has always hated such things (the concept of nation) and added that divisive tendencies had made home in Congress DNA.
“That’s why the Congress has become the leader of tukde-tukde gang,” the PM said, adding that unable to succeed in electoral politics the Congress had decided to spawn negativity and had even started “insulting the innovative capacity of India”.
