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SRINAGAR: Congress on Saturday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP will face a crushing defeat in poll-bound Bihar, which will be worse than what it faced in Delhi assembly polls.
“Modi is going to face defeat in Bihar which will be worse than Delhi. They (BJP) will never win in Bihar),” Congress National Spokesperson Meem Afzal told reporters here.
Addressing a press conference, the leader noted that the party in power at the Centre is inclined to lose in the face of a third front.
“Whenever third front forces have come together (in Bihar) — be it 1977, 1989 or 1996 — the ruling party at the centre had to suffer. We also suffered,” he said.
Although no pre-poll alliances have been finalised by Congress in Bihar that is set to face polls later this year, Afzal said that the party was “part of the camp” led by the Third front forces.
The press conference was part of the series of events organised by Congress across the country to hit out at the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.
The party spokesperson also vehemently denied BJP’s claim that Congress compromised on the national security, when UPA government was in power.
“We never compromised the national security but see what is happening since the Modi government came to power last year. There have been 746 ceasefire violations in Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.
The leader noted that the UPA government had decided to raise Mountain Strike Corps keeping in view the security situation along the China border.
“We had provided for 90,000 strong Corps but the Modi government has reduced it by 50 per cent. Why? This came few weeks before Modi’s visit to China,” he said.
Afzal said the BJP government had failed on all fronts including controlling the rising prices and bringing back the black money.
Meanwhile, reacting to Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi’s statement advising beef eaters to leave for Pakistan, Meem Afzal said that it was a reflection of BJP leaders’ mindset.
