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Ahmedabad, Dec 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lambasted the Congress and listed all the abusive remark by the Opposition leaders in recent times. Addressing a rally Nikol, while campaigning for the second phase of Gujarat Assembly Elections 2017, dragged Sonia Gandhi in the ‘neech’ remark row. He said, “They have not called me ‘neech’ for the first time yesterday. Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and her family members have used it too. Why am I ‘Neech’ – because I was born poor, because I am of a lower caste, because I am a Gujarati? Is that why they hate me.”
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Modi went ballistic against the Congress leaders a day after senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyer called him ‘neech aadmi’. Listing the names of the Congress leaders like Digvijaya Singh, Renuka Chowdhary, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Jairam Ramesh among others, he mentioned each of the remarks made by them against him.
“What did Anand Sharma say-PM Modi is mentally unstable.A Congress leader re-tweeted such an offensive Tweet about me that I cannot even say it. What did Digvijaya Singh Tweet about me? Evidently, one Gujarati, a person born into a poor family has troubled them a lot,” he said.
Hardening his attack further, he said, “Divijaya Singh said Modi Sarkar is like Rakshas Raaj and Modi is Ravana. Pramod Tiwari, who headed the Congress in UP, said Modi is in the list of Hitler, Mussolini & Gaddafi. Day and night the Congress has abused me. I keep quiet only because my priority is work.”
Questiong the remarks made by the Congress leaders, he expressed anger over how a Congress leader called him a monkey. “Jairam Ramesh compared me to Bhasmasur. Beni Prasad Verma called me a mad dog. He also said we won’t let this mad dog win. Ghulam Nabi Azad said I am Gangu Teli. Are these the kind of things we should say in public life?,” he added.
Further he said, “Imran Masood, who they gave a ticket to, he said we will cut Modi into pieces.Renuka Chowdhury called me a virus. She said I bring Namonitis. I don’t even want to get started on what Gujarat Congress leaders have been calling me.”
Gujarat Assembly elections 2017 will be conducted in two phases. Voting for phase 1 will be held on December 9 and the second phase will be conducted on December 14. The counting of votes will be done on December 18. The results will be announced on the same day.
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