Terming the BJP overconfident, Congress leader Kumari Selja says the ruling party's chest thumping and event management will result in its defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.

"The BJP is all about chest thumping and event management. Less work more publicity. They are overconfident and failed to see the ground reality. They are living in a different world. All these will become reasons behind their defeat," she told PTI.

Selja, a three-time Lok Sabha MP from Haryana, also accused the BJP of taking refuge behind the armed forces and said her party had never done that.

Modi went for feasts uninvited to Pakistan and got Pathankot in return. Now, when the Pulwama terror attack has happened, the BJP is taking refuge behind the armed forces. The Congress has never done that. No party should do that," she said referring to the terror attack on the Pathankot Air Force station in 2016 and the Pulwama suicide attack in February this year.

Commenting on promises of 'achhe din' and employment generation made by the BJP in the last parliamentary elections, Selja said, "When the top man (Modi) talks of selling pakodas, it is laughable...don't people recall the promises he made about jobs and so-called 'achhe din'.

The 57-year-old Congress leader claimed a different narrative was unleashed in the country in 2014 and could not be repeated in 2019.

"Last time, the kind of untruth told to people was never done before in the country. The top man (Modi)... did not shy from making false promises...that too with great confidence...then people had developed fatigue towards the UPA that had been in power for very long and people happened to believe his promises. But now things have changed," she said.

"In Haryana, they promised the moon...you see the condition of farmers and the poor. Nothing was done for them. People tell me they were asked to build toilets and were promised money in return, which they did not receive," she added.

The former Union minister asserted that elections in the state will see a ripple effect of the violence that took place during the Jat reservation agitation two years ago and people could see through the BJP's divide and rule policy.

"Their intention was to divide society. They burnt the state but people are wiser now. The way it was handled, people have seen through their policy of divide and rule," she said.

Selja is pitted against sitting BJP MP Rattan Lal Kataria and Prithvi Singh of the JJP-AAP alliance. She was elected Lok Sabha MP from Sirsa in 1991 and then elected for two terms in 2004 and 2009 from Ambala, a reserved constituency.

Polling in Haryana's 10 constituencies will take place on May 12.

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