Raking up the history of revolt within the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the ruling party in Rajasthan was victimising former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot because of his late father Rajesh Pilot’s challenge to the party leadership 26 years ago. “Whoever speaks truth in Congress is shunted out of politics,” Mr. Modi said.
The Prime Minister addressed two public meetings at Dungarpur’s Sagwara and Bhilwara’s Jahazpur during the last phase of campaigning for the November 25 State Assembly election. He accused the Congress of punishing Mr. Pilot after giving the same treatment to his father, who died in 2000.
“Rajesh Pilot Ji had once raised his voice and challenged the Congress family for good, but this family is such that after punishing him, it is bent upon punishing his son as well with a feeling of rancour,” Mr. Modi said. He claimed that anyone who spoke anything in front of the Congress family, creating even a little inconvenience, was as good as finished.
