Khandwa: Congress is a \u201csinking ship\u201d with a hole in the bottom, and no power in the world can stop it from sinking, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said.<\/p>\n
He was addressing public meetings in Khandwa and Badwani district of Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n
In a veiled dig at the Gandhi family, the Defence Minister said, \u201cAfter independence, Mahatma Gandhi said as democracy has been established in the country, it is the time to dissolve Congress, but the leaders of Congress ignored Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s request.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the people of this country have made up their mind to fulfil what Mahatma Gandhi said about Congress, and they (people) will definitely wipe out Congress from the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He also praised the BJP government for bringing \u201c25 crore\u201d people out of poverty in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cJawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and Manmohan Singh, all of them committed to ending poverty, but all of them failed. But the Modi government was able to bring 25 crore people out of poverty,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
On the allegations levelled by Opposition of \u2018Democracy under threat\u2019 amid the developments in Surat and Indore, the Defence Minister pointed out that the Congress candidate was elected unopposed 20 times in the past.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday, Akshay Kanti Bam, the Congress candidate from Indore parliamentary seat withdrew his nomination.<\/p>\n
Prior to this, Mukesh Dalal won the election \u201cunopposed\u201d a day after the nomination of the party\u2019s Surat Lok Sabha candidate was rejected on Sunday over alleged discrepancies in the signature of the proposers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Surat Lok Sabha BJP candidate has been elected unopposed. The Congress candidate from Indore has resigned from Congress and is supporting the BJP. This is the affection of people towards the BJP. But Congress says the BJP is a threat to democracy. Congress candidates have been elected unopposed 20 times, then there was no threat to democracy?\u201d Rajnath asserted.<\/p>\n
Singh, during his address, compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Ahilyabai Holkar, who took the reigns of the Holkar dynasty after her husband\u2019s demise and played an important role in the protection of cultural heritage in Malwa.<\/p>\n
\u201cModi ji is also doing the same what Ahilyabai Holkar had done. He ensured the construction of Ujjain Mahakaal Corridor, Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, and Ram Mandir in Ayodhya,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Asserting for \u2018One Nation One Election\u2019, he said assembly elections were held around four months back and now within a short duration, again the general elections are happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to say there should be a single election every five years. And I assure you that next time both the elections will happen together and we will do whatever we can do for it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Lok Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh are being conducted in four phases. The first two phases concluded on April 19 and April 26. The counting of votes will be held on June 4.<\/p>\n
Madhya Pradesh has a total of 29 Lok Sabha constituencies, making it the sixth-largest state in terms of parliamentary representation.<\/p>\n
In 2019, BJP won 28 out of 29 seats while Congress could only win one seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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