New Delhi, May 6 (PTI) In two sharply critical speeches, a combative Congress President Sonia Gandhi today attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of running a government “of some people, by one person, for a select few” by “centralising” power and “weakening” the State’s strength.
She also accused Modi of playing domestic politics on foreign soil by attacking his distinguished predecessor in France and sinking to a “new low” by referring to the UPA in “despicable terms” in Canada.
Questioning the Modi government’s performance on all fronts in the nearly one year of its rule, Gandhi said minorities were being threatened while people were made to feel unsafe by “poisoning” the political discourse.
Attacking the style of the government’s functioning, she said ministers “hardly matter” while “empowered” bureaucrats “feel paralysed” because all key files were pending in the PMO.
“The prime minister likes to talk of consensus. Yet ignoring convention, this government acts with obstinate arrogance,” Gandhi said in her address to the Congress Parliamentary Party as the budget session of Parliament will come to an end shortly.
She also took the floor of the Lok Sabha and attacked Modi for his “blatant U-turn” on the issue of transparency, charging his government with “deliberately” keeping key posts of Chief Information Commission, CVC and Lok Pal vacant.
