The Congress chief accused the BJP and RSS of provoking people to gain votes. Citing a newspaper article, Kharge said he read that RSS favoured the slogan of ‘batenge toh katenge’ (if divided, we perish) being raised by the UP CM. “First, you decide between yourselves whose slogan is to be followed, ‘ Yogi ji’s or Modi ji’s,” he said, adding, “BJP leaders give inciting speeches and speak lies and divert people’s attention from core issues.”Kharge said two big leaders from Vidarbha did not stop big-ticket projects from being shifted from Maharashtra to Gujarat because they were concerned about “saving their own posts and not worried about people’s interest”. He was referring to Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis who hail from Nagpur.There is an MVA wave in Vidarbha, which elects 62 of the state’s 288 MLAs, Kharge said and expressed confidence that the grouping comprising Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP) will win the assembly polls.He dismissed the BJP’s allegation that the Congress supports ‘urban Naxals’, particularly when their leader Rahul Gandhi keeps talking about saving the Constitution.”Is it a crime to flaunt a copy of the Constitution with a red cover,” he said, referring to Fadnavis’s earlier allegation that Gandhi was building a coalition of anarchists. In many public meetings, Gandhi has waived a copy of the Constitution with a red cover.
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