PM Modi lashes out at ‘dynastic politics’ of Congress Party

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a scathing attack on the Congress in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, blamed the party’s “dynastic politics” for many crises that the country had to face since independence.

"Some members asked- if there was no Congress, what would happen... I would like to say, if there was no Congress there would be no Emergency, there would be no caste politics, Sikhs would never have been massacred, the problems of Kashmiri Pandits would not have happened, if Congress would not have been there, there would've been no incident of daughters being thrown in 'tandoor'," said PM Modi, in his reply to the debate on the motion of thanks to the President's address.

"It was said here, 'Congress na hoti, toh kya hota'. It's a result of the thinking, 'India is Indira, Indira is India.' Mahatma Gandhi knew what would happen if they continue to be and he wanted to disband them beforehand," he added.

"Had Congress ceased to be, as per the wish of Mahatma Gandhi, democracy would've been free from a dynasty. India would've walked on the path of national resolutions, instead of taking to foreign views," he said.

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