Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress-led INDIA bloc plans to have five PMs in 5 years if elected, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Pic/PTI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday targeted the Congress-led INDIA alliance, saying it is mulling to have five prime ministers in five years if voted to power, reported news agency PTI.

Addressing a Lok Sabha elections 2024 rally at Kolhapur in western Maharashtra, PM Modi said the opposition bloc cannot even reach a three-digit figure or "at the doorstep of forming a government, but has plans to have one prime minister every year if they get a chance", reported PTI.

"In Karnataka, Congress has planned to rotate the post of the chief minister by handing it to the deputy chief minister after 2.5 years. They had this arrangement in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan as well," he said.

PM Modi said the Congress wants to extend the "Karnataka model wherein Muslims were inducted in the 27 per cent quota for OBCs", in the entire country, reported PTI.

"The Congress-led alliance has vowed to murder social justice," he said and accused the Congress of stooping low for appeasement and vote bank politics, reported PTI.

"Congress wants to change the Constitution and rob Dalits, OBCs of quota benefits for religion-based reservation," he said.

PM Modi said the Congress had not only opposed the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya but also declined the invitation for its consecration, reported PTI.

Targeting Rahul Gandhi over wealth distribution, PM Modi said, "The Congress shehzade wants to search your wealth and distribute it to those who the party had said to have the first right on the country's resources".

"The Congress wanted to impose inheritance tax and rob people of their inheritance. Such people shouldn't get even a slight chance of coming to power," he added.

He said the NDA is leading 2-0 in the first two phases of Lok Sabha elections 2024.

"Kolhapur is known as a football hub. With the second phase of polling completed, I will say the NDA is leading 2-0 while the Congress alliance engaged in anti-India policies and politics of hate has scored two self-goals," he added, reported PTI.

I am sure voters will score such a 'goal' in the third phase that the INDIA alliance will be vanquished, PM Modi said, adding that in the subsequent phases, the INDIA bloc should be handed a resounding defeat, reported PTI.

"The Congress manifesto says Article 370 will be restored and CAA will be repealed. Can anyone change Modi's decisions? And if they do so, do they know what will be the repercussions?" he asked.

(With inputs from PTI)