Rajnath Singh Responds to Kharge Remark on PM Modi: 'I Pray You Live for 125 Years'

Rajnath Singh Responds to Kharge Remark: On Monday, Rajnath Singh, the defense minister, replied to Mallikarjun Kharge's statement that the Congress would stay alive until PM Modi is "removed from power."

Singh told while speaking at a rally in Charkhi Dadri, "I respect the Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge but yesterday in one his rallies he might not be keeping well and the security personnel were helping him and even then he was saying I will stay alive until I remove Modi Ji from chair.

"I would like to tell him that maximum age in Kalyug is 125 years. I pray to God that Mallikarjun Kharge lives for 125 years and PM Modi remains the PM for 125 years." 

Kharge was sick while speaking at a campaign gathering on Sunday in the Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. After taking a break, he said, "We will fight to restore statehood. I am 83 years old, I am not going to die so early. I will stay alive till PM Modi is removed from power." 

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Singh blamed the Congress party for bad government and used cases from Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka to back up his claims. He said that the government of Himachal Pradesh couldn't pay its workers' salaries and that the Karnataka Chief Minister was being charged with corruption in connection with the MUDA scam.

The defense minister said bad things about the Congress leadership and brought up the fact that no minister in PM Modi's ten-year government was charged with corruption.

He insisted that Haryana needs a chief minister who has never been accused of graft.

"Haryana requires a chief minister who doesn't have even a single charge of corruption against him. Our government is very particular about this and whenever we any information regarding corruption, strict action is taken and we will continue to do so. None of our ministers have any corruption charges against them. Their ministers have been to jail and can a government be run from the jail," Singh added.

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