PM Modi today spoke during the debate on Motion of Thanks to the President's address
In a searing attack on the Congress and the Gandhis in parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said "talent is the first casualty of dynastic politics" and listed how the country would have been better off without the Congress in power.
"The Congress's problem is it has never thought beyond its dynasty. The biggest threat to democracy are dynastic parties. And when a family becomes paramount then the first casualty is talent," PM Modi said in parliament.
"People say if there was no Congress, what would have happened. They are stuck India is Indira, Indira is India," the PM said, referring to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
He said Mahatma Gandhi wanted the Congress to be scrapped.
"If, going by Gandhi's wish, the Congress was not there, 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. Women would not have been burnt in tandoors. The common man would not have had to wait so long for basic facilities," PM Modi said.
