Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders who frequently question what Congress did for the country during its prolonged rule after Independence, All India Congress Committee president M. Mallikarjun Kharge said if Congress had not opened schools and colleges, Modi would not have got educated and become the Prime Minister.
“You [the BJP leaders often ask what Congress did for the country. Congress under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru fought the British and gave us Independence. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar gave us the Constitution. When the British left India, the country was in a pathetic condition. It was the Congress that built the new India. It was Congress that opened schools and colleges to make people literate. It was Congress that built dams to provide irrigation facilities to farmers. Modi got educated in the same school that Congress had opened and became the Prime Minister,” Mr. Kharge said.
He was addressing an election rally at Wadi in Chittapur constituency where his son and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Priyank Kharge was contesting as Congress candidate.
