“Congress Can’t Think Beyond Dynasty”: PM Continues Attack

“The Congress problem is it has never thought beyond its dynasty,” PM Narendra Modi said in Parliament.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a fierce attack on the Congress and the Gandhis in parliament today, said “talent is the first casualty of dynastic politics” and listed how the country would have been different “if Congress had not there”.

“The Congress’s problem is it has never thought beyond its dynasty. The biggest threats to democracy are dynastic parties. And when a family becomes paramount then the first casualty is talent,” PM Modi said in Rajya Sabha, replying to a debate on government policies.

“People wonder what if there had been no Congress. They are stuck in India is Indira, Indira is India,” the PM said, referring to a Congress phrase for one of its iconic leaders, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

He said Mahatma Gandhi wanted the Congress to be scrapped. “This was Mahatma Gandhi’s wish – he knew what would happen if they remained and said destroy this. If Gandhi’s wishes had been followed, India would have been free from nepotism,” he remarked.

“If, going by Gandhi’s wish, there had been no Congress, democracy would have been free of nepotism. India would have taken the swadeshi path. There would be no stain of Emergency. Corruption would not have been institutionalised for decades. There would have been no casteism or regionalism. Sikhs would not have been massacred. There would not have been an exodus from Kashmir. Women would not have been burnt in tandoors. The common man would not have had to wait so long for basic facilities,” PM Modi said.