Rahul's Hindu makeover won't help, Cong will lose all 5 polls: Sushma

December 01, 2018 20:43

Hitting out at the Congress, External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said it was clear that the Congress party, beset by many dilemmas, is set to lose the assembly elections in all five states.

Swaraj, who was in Jaipur for the BJPs campaign ahead of the December 7 Rajasthan assembly elections, alleged the Congress is facing several dilemmas. They are in a dilemma over whether there will be a coalition, and if (Congress president) Rahul Gandhi will be accepted as leader of the coalition. They are in a dilemma over his religion and caste, she said at a press conference.

Surveys that show that Congress is winning due to anti-incumbency... Id like to tell the pollsters that an organization that is beset by dilemmas, which has lowered morale of workers... can never go with self-confidence to the people. Congress can never win in BJP-ruled states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, she said.

The Congress would not win in Telangana and Mizoram either, she added.

Its the writing on the wall that a Congress party beset by dilemmas will lose elections in all five states.

Attacking Gandhi, she said that a programme in Udaipur, the Congress chief had said that in the 21st century education and health services should be available at cheap rates.

I would like to remind Gandhi that for the first 10 years of the 21st century their government was at the centre. He should have given an account of how cheap education and healthcare was in their tenure, she said.

Swaraj also hit out at Gandhis comment that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not know what it is to be a Hindu, alleging Gandhi and the Congress were in a dilemma over his religion and caste and the party tried to do a makeover for him.

For years the Congress presented Gandhi as secular. Then they realised that majority of the votebank is Hindu so he needed a Hindu makeover, she said, adding that is why the Congress chief visited Kailash Mansarovar, the Peetambari Peeth in Madhya Pradesh and Pushkar in Rajasthan.

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