New Delhi:

The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his “Muslim League stamp” and “a litany of lies” over his rival’s Lok Sabha election manifesto.

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, who has led the pushback, said the BJP realized it would lose this election and was acting out of fear and that the party had pledged to The committee filed a complaint.

Addressing an election rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur on Saturday, the Prime Minister declared that the Congress party’s manifesto “bears exclusively the stamp of the Muslim League”.

“The Congress has published a series of lies in its manifesto… every page reeks of an attempt to divide India. It reflects the thinking of the Muslim League before independence,” the Prime Minister said.

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He reiterated this statement at a rally in Bastar, Chhattisgarh this morning, after which BJP president JP Nadda said: “The Congress has been rejected time and time again but they insist on the politics of appeasement. I see that Surprised by this declaration. Is this their declaration or that declaration? “Muslim League…”

Hours later, Congress retaliated, filing a complaint against Modi and another against Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar (BJP’s Kerala leader) with the Election Commission. candidate in Rivananthapuram) for providing “false information” in the election affidavit.

“We raised many questions… including how the Prime Minister called our manifesto a ‘copy of the Muslim League’ and about Rajiv Chandrasekhar’s election affidavit,” Congress’s Pawan Hera told reporters. Mr Hera and other senior leaders met with the voting panel this afternoon.

The “Muslim League Mark” attack also drew a fierce rebuttal from Mr Haq, who attacked Prime Minister and Home Minister Amit Shah for “spreading lies”.

In a swipe at the BJP and its ideological mentor the Bharatiya Janata Party, he said “everyone knows how (Syama) Prasad Mukherjee” formed coalition governments in Bengal, Sindh and the North-West Frontier Province in the 1940s . Alliance with the Muslims”.

“Modi Shah’s political and ideological ancestors supported the British and Muslim League against the Indians in the freedom struggle…” Mr Haq posted on X.

Modi Shah’s political and ideological ancestors supported the British and Muslim League against the Indians in the freedom struggle.

Even today, they are invoking the Muslim League against the “New Patra Congress” directed and shaped according to desires, needs and…

— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) April 8, 2024

“Modi Shah’s ideological ancestors opposed Gandhi’s 1942 call to quit India, an initiative chaired by Maulana Azad. Modi reeks of RSSlucky‘s speech…BJP’s electoral picture is slipping day by day. So, the RSS started remembering its best friend – the Muslim League! “Mr. Hager said.

Earlier, the Congress had also said he “doesn’t know its history” after the Prime Minister’s initial jibes.

The Congress party points out that Jana Sangh founder and PPP ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a member of the Bengal-Muslim League coalition government in the early 1940s.

“The Prime Minister is ignorant of his history. In fact, Mukherjee was none other than the then Chairman of the Hindu Mahasabha, who himself was part of the coalition government of Bengal with the Muslim League… This was quoted by the Congress General Secretary as quoted by news agency Bharatiya Janata Party Jairam Ramesh was quoted as saying, “Instead of the Congress, they believe in and practice divisive politics”.

Part of the manifesto released on Friday that sparked the debate was a pledge to increase reservation for marginalized groups, including Dalits, beyond the 50 per cent cap imposed by the Supreme Court.

“The Muslim League had talked about reservation based on religion in 1929… Congress is repeating the same thing. Talking about reservation based on religion and promising more than 50 per cent reservation… Who will benefit from this, Congress should make it clear,” Mr. Nadda explain.

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The Congress manifesto also focused on job creation and infrastructure development and made several other promises, including an assurance of minimum support price to protesting farmers and direct cash transfers to women heads of households below the poverty line.

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