This election is not about you: Rahul hits out at PM in poll-bound K’taka

TURUVEKERE, MAY 1 (PTI): Hitting out at the Prime Minister over his charge that he was “abused 91 times”, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said Narendra Modi should understand that the Karnataka election was not about him.

Asking the Prime Minister to speak about the BJP government’s work and future programmes for Karnataka, instead of talking about himself, the former AICC president took a dig at Modi’s statement about verbal abuses hurled at him.

“You (Modi) come to campaign in Karnataka for elections, but don’t speak about Karnataka. You speak about yourself. You have to say what you did in Karnataka for the past three years. You also have to speak in your speeches about what you will be doing in the next five years, what will do for youth, education, health and to fight corruption,” Gandhi said.

Addressing a public meeting here in Tumakuru district, Gandhi said, “This election is not about you, it is about Karnataka’s people and its future. You say Congress abused you

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91 times, but you never speak about what you did for Karnataka. In your next speech, you speak about what you did and what you will do in the next five years.”

Modi on Saturday targeted the Congress over its party president M Mallikarjun Kharge’s ‘venomous snake’ barb at him and said till now the party and its leaders had hurled various types of abuses at him 91 times.

Claiming that when he comes to Karnataka and gives speeches he speaks about his party leaders like Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar and about their work, Gandhi said, “We take the names of all our leaders. You (Modi) come here and don’t even take the name of your Chief Minister (Basavaraj Bommai) and (B

S) Yediyurappa

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