PATNA: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
on Sunday said the opposition INDI Alliace has neither vision nor credibility. Taking a dig at their claim to fight unitedly with an aim to defeat Modi and the BJP-led
NDA
in the
Lok Sabha election
beginning on April 19, the PM said, "Unke bich sirfutauwal machi hai (infighting), Even one of the
INDI Alliance leaders
has refused to
campaign
until he is declared the
PM candidate
."
Addressing an
election rally
in Nawada, Modi said INDI Alliance is a divided lot, fighting against each other in different states.
"The INDI Alliance is a den of corrupt and anti-national people trying to divide the country between north and south. They have come together under compulsion to protect the corrupt, but don't know who their leader is. When I enquired recently why their leaders were not being seen in electioneering, I came to know that a storm has been brewing in the alliance for the last 15 days as one of their leaders is adamant that he would not campaign and won't address even a single election rally until the alliance declares him the PM candidate," said Modi while keeping the audience guessing who that leader is.
"The INDI Alliance partners say their PM candidate will be announced only after the election and they are trying to convince him. Let's see whether he is persuaded or not," Modi said in a lighter vein, adding that even one of their leaders admitted that their "people" were lazy and did not want to do anything.
Even
Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi, on the occasion of releasing his party election manifesto on Friday, said the decision on PM candidate will be taken after the election, though at an INDI Alliance meeting in December last, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal had suggested Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's name for the alliance's PM face.
Referring to Bihar and some other states, Modi also said the INDI Alliance partners are not sure who is their candidate from where.
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