Top Leader Stern On Not Campaigning Till Named PM Face, Says Modi Over 'Brewing Storm' In INDIA Bloc

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the rally in Bihar's Nawada on Sunday. (Image: PTI)

The prime minister also said that he took note of how the opposition group's leaders were missing in action in the election campaigns

A chaotic storm has been brewing among the top brass of the INDI alliance for the past fifteen days, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. Without taking any names, he said that one of the opposition group’s key leader has put their foot down saying that they won’t feature in any poll campaign till they are named as the ‘PM face’.

Addressing a public gathering in Bihar’s Nawada, the prime minister took a swipe at the INDI alliance and its internal tiff over who will be the PM candidate.

He said that the opposition bloc has been consistently saying that they will decide and announce the ‘neta‘ only after the results of the Lok Sabha elections are declared. “Now they are convincing them. Who knows, they’ll understand or not,” PM Modi said, adding that “this is the condition of the INDI alliance”.

The prime minister also said that he took note of how the opposition group’s leaders were missing in action in the election campaigns. “I asked around what the matter was. Are the INDI alliance leaders feeling too relaxed?” PM Modi said.

PM Modi, in a light tone, even said that one of the opposition’s own leader gave a statement that their “people are lazy and relaxed, they don’t want to do anything”.

In his speech, the prime minister further took a jibe at the INDI alliance and said it was a “den of corrupt people, hideout of anti-national hateful forces”.

“The INDI alliance neither has vision not credibility. The people who stand together in Delhi are the ones who abuse each other in different states,” PM Modi said.

He said that the grouping has come together only “out of compulsion” and that is “greed for power”.

INDIA bloc leaders talk about ending Sanatan Dharma, another partition of India, the PM said, adding that they have made open statements about separating South India.

He also pointed that “a very prominent leader of the INDI alliance said that Modi guarantees should be banned”. “These people say that it is illegal for Modi to give a guarantee.”

“Are you so scared? Are you scared of Modi’s guarantee?” the prime minister asked in response.

He reinforced the “Phir Ek Baar Modi Sarkaar” message to the people of Nawada and asked them to tell everyone to vote for ‘kamal’.