The party came out with a 59-page booklet, titled “Pragati Ki Tham Gayi Chaal, Do Saal, Desh Ka Bura Hal” (The pace of progress has stopped. Two years and the nation’s bad plight) accusing the government of “systematic attack on institutions, icons and inclusiveness”.
Claiming the booklet to be “Sachchaai Ka Aaina (Mirror of Reality), AICC trained its guns on the NDA dispensation on a wide range of issues including economy, employment, price rise and foreign policy.
Dismissing the government’s claims on performance on completion of two years in office, the party said,”Dull and dark shadow crept over India in the last two years.” “As the second year of the Modi government draws to a close, sadly there is little to celebrate,” it said.
“Muscled thugs impose their ideas of morality and lynch mobs kill people on mere suspicion. BJP leaders spew venomous messages of hate and violence to question the patriotism of every Indian who disagrees with them,” it said.
In Mumbai, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said, “I don’t understand what the celebrations are for when the entire country is going through an agrarian crisis.”
In Indore, Congress general secretary CP Joshi took a potshot at the Narendra Modi-led NDA regime, saying even after completing two years in office, the Prime Minister was in an “electioneering mode”.
“Even after coming to power two years back, Modi was still in electioneering mode,” Joshi told reporters here.