{"id":52431,"date":"2024-04-25T09:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=52431"},"modified":"2024-04-25T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:52:00","slug":"congress-accuses-pm-modi-of-symbolizing-asatyamev-jayate-diverting-attention-from-genuine-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/25\/congress-accuses-pm-modi-of-symbolizing-asatyamev-jayate-diverting-attention-from-genuine-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Accuses PM Modi of Symbolizing &#8216;Asatyamev Jayate&#8217;, Diverting Attention from Genuine Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NEW DELHI, Apr 25:<\/strong> The Congress on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of spreading \u201clies\u201d to divert attention from real issues in the Lok Sabha polls and challenged him to point out where in the party\u2019s manifesto is \u201credistribution of wealth\u201d mentioned. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh claimed that PM Modi \u201csymbolises Asatyamev Jayate\u2019.Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, Ramesh said the Congress will not play on the pitch prepared by the BJP but \u201cwill play on the pitch of issues of unemployment and price rise\u201d. Ramesh claimed that the trends from the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls show that in some states, the BJP has been \u201cwiped out\u201d and in some states, its seats are going down as compared to the 2019 polls. \u201cHe (PM Modi) is trying to take the agenda in another direction. He first tried to give a communal colour to our manifesto and then talked about things that are not there in the \u2018Nyay Patra\u2019. It is propaganda based on lies,\u201d Ramesh said. \u201cHe is giving publicity to our manifesto, though it is wrong publicity,\u201d he said. The Nyay Patra is based on the feedback from the people during the Bharat Jodo Yatra and the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, he said. \u201cIt is very clear that due to the policies of Prime Minister Modi unemployment has increased, price rise is not being reined in and economic inequalities have gone up,\u201d he said. The Congress will fight the Lok Sabha polls on Nari Nyay, Yuva Nyay, Kisaan Nyay, Shramik Nyay and Hissedari Nyay, he asserted. \u201cOurs is a positive agenda. We want to fight the polls on people\u2019s issues such as unemployment, price rise, attack on Constitution, institutions,\u201d he said. Ramesh claimed that Modi has stopped raising the slogan of \u2018400 paar\u2019 and \u2018Modi Ki Guarantee\u2019, and is using a new language of polarisation. Ramesh said, \u201cPolarisation has always been his weapon but he is using the language of polarisation more brazenly to divert attention. He is just seeking to defame Congress\u2019 Nyay Patra\u2019.\u201d He asserted that there is no mention of inheritance tax in the Congress manifesto and it is not part of the party\u2019s agenda. \u201cRajiv Gandhi had abolished it in 1985. However, BJP leaders such as Arun Jaitley and Jayant Sinha advocated in favour of inheritance tax. The one who says we will bring inheritance tax is wrong and in fact, it is the BJP\u2019s agenda,\u201d Ramesh said. Noting that Modi has claimed that the Congress will redistribute wealth if it comes to power, Ramesh said, \u201cI challenge him to show us where wealth redistribution is mentioned in the manifesto\u2019. Where have we said we will take away mangalsutras, the person who did not respect mangalsutra himself is talking about it.\u201d Modi does not say that it is because of his intention and policies that there are 21 billionaires who have the wealth equivalent to 70 per cent of the population, Ramesh said, adding that the Congress believes in inclusive economic development. The Congress leader also asked Modi to clear his stand on the caste census issue. Ramesh\u2019s remarks came a day after the prime minister seized on Congress leader Sam Pitroda\u2019s remarks on inheritance tax to step up the ruling BJP\u2019s attack on the issue of \u201cwealth redistribution\u201d. After Pitorda\u2019s remarks on inheritance tax, the Congress distanced itself from the comments of the US-based president of its overseas wing and asserted that it has no plan to introduce such a tax. Amid the BJP\u2019s attack alleging that the Congress would redistribute wealth and introduce an inheritance tax if it comes to power, the Congress has been insisting that its manifesto does not talk about \u201credistribution\u201d and that it favours a socio-economic caste census.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Apr 25: The Congress on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of spreading \u201clies\u201d to divert attention from real issues in the Lok Sabha polls and challenged him to point out where in the party\u2019s manifesto is \u201credistribution of wealth\u201d mentioned. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh claimed that PM Modi \u201csymbolises Asatyamev Jayate\u2019.Addressing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[3897,444,1032,73,1033,839],"class_list":{"0":"post-52431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-national","9":"tag-asatyamev-jayate","10":"tag-congress","11":"tag-earlypostdaily","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-latestnews","14":"tag-pm-modi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52433,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52431\/revisions\/52433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}