Corruption would not have been institutionalised for decades: PM attacks Congress

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has attacked the Congress Party while speaking in the parliament on February 8, 2022. He accused the Congress party of ignoring talent and pursuing dynasty politics in the country.

PM Modi said that had Congress Party not ruled the country, it wouldn’t have faced so many problems such as corruption, casteism and regionalism. He also said that even Mahatma Gandhi had once said that Congress should be scrapped.

PM Modi said, "If going by Gandhi's wish, there had been no Congress, democracy would have been free of nepotism. India would have taken the swadeshi path. There would be no stain of Emergency. Corruption would not have been institutionalised for decades. There would have been no casteism or regionalism.”

“Sikhs would not have been massacred. There would not have been an exodus from Kashmir. Women would not have been burnt in tandoors. The common man would not have had to wait so long for basic facilities," PM Modi added.

While replying to a discussion on government schemes, PM Modi said, "The Congress's problem is it has never thought beyond its dynasty. The biggest threats to democracy are dynastic parties. And when a family becomes paramount then the first casualty is talent.”

PM Modi reminded parliamentarians of a popular slogan which Congress had given when Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister.

"People wonder what if there had been no Congress. They are stuck in India is Indira, Indira is India," the PM said.