Congress’ general secretary for Uttar Pradesh (East) Priyanka Gandhi Vadraon Sunday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) manifesto for Lok Sabha elections 2019, saying that there is no space for different cultures and religions in it. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah had released party’s 45-page manifesto titled “Sankalp Patra” for the national elections. Drafted on the theme of a ‘Sankalpit Bharat – Shashakt Bharat’ (determined India, empowered India), the ruling party’s ‘Sankalp Patra‘ makes 75 promises to woo different sections of the society, particularly farmers, youth and women, besides the oppressed.
Meanwhile, holding a roadshow in Assam’s Silchar in support of Congress candidate and sitting MP Sushmita Dev, Priyanka also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ‘not getting time to visit his own parliamentary constituency Varanasi’. Gandhi claimed that she was told by people in Varanasi that PM Modi did not spend even five minutes with anyone there in the last five years. “He went to America and hugged there, went to China and hugged there, too. He went and hugged in Russia and Africa. He went to Japan and played the drum. In Pakistan, he had biriyani. But in his own constituency, he did not go once to a family’s house to enquire about their condition,” she alleged.