Pune, Mar 27 (PTI): Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar Tuesday said the Congress started using "abusive language" against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP out of its desperation as it's losing the political ground.
He also accused the Congress of distorting facts and making tall promises about granting loan waivers to farmers in Rajasthan, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarhand Karnataka. "Today's press conference by the Congress reflects their exasperation, their desperation...as if they know certainly that they are not winning the Lok Sabha elections and therefore they are showing this nervousness. "In that nervousness, they have decided to use abusive language about the prime minister and BJP. They also decided to falsify facts," said Javadekar while referring to Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala's press conference.
In the presser held in Delhi earlier in the day, Surjewala had asked the prime minister and the BJP to clearly spell out whether they support its proposal to give Rs 72,000 annually to five crore poor families under a minimum income guarantee scheme. Surjewala also alleged that it was "shameful" that the "pro-rich" Prime Minister Modi was opposing the world's biggest anti-poverty scheme. Hitting back, Javadekar said Surjewala claims that the prime minister travels a lot abroad, "but the record shows that (the then prime minister) Manmohan Singh too travelled the equal amount of time, but the difference is that the global effect of Modiji's visits is more".
Javadekar also attacked Gandhi on his minimum income guarantee scheme promise. The Union minister further said that even 45 years after the Congress nationalised banks, it failed to open adequate number of bank accounts. "It was the Modi government which opened 35 crore banks accounts in 35 months," he said.
Javadekar alleged that farmers got "pittance" in the form of loan waiver in Congress-ruled Rajasthan, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh and Karnataka. "The Congress is distorting facts. It is doing politics of deception. That party is deceiving voters through false promises, but people know very well that only Modi can make the country secure and deliver on promises. Having realised this the Congress is levelling bogus charges and is using abusive language (against the PM)," he alleged. Javadekar said fugitive businessmen Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya thrived in the Congress regime and received unprecedented loan, "but we are bringing them back".