PM chair is distant dream for Modi: Sibal
Taunting Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Union minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday said that internal strife within the BJP would frustrate the leader’s bid for prime ministership.
“Delhi is distant. Who will allow you (Mr Modi) to reach there? Especially, with so many eyeing the post within that party (BJP), including the one who has been standing behind the chair for years,” Mr Sibal said, while referring to senior BJP leader L.K. Advani, without mentioning his name.
Mr Sibal was speaking at the concluding session of the two-day conclave organised by the state Congress unit for selected party workers, representing every tehsil of the state.
Mr Sibal alleged that the Gujarat CM presented a misleading picture of Gujarat’s growth, with wrong figures. He claimed that in reality, the state’s below poverty line (BPL) population and malnutrition cases had increased in rural areas. “If Gujarat has made any progress, it is because of the people of Gujarat and not because of Mr Modi,” he said. Crticising the BJP leader, Mr Sibal said, “Mr Modi puts on a mask to hide his true face. If one goes near him, the real face is exposed.” He said that only Congress had a vision for a 21st century India and the country could progress only on the path of secularism and not on the one represented by Mr Modi.
He even asked party workers to give a suitable reply to the Opposition parties that are attempting to defame the Congress.
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