Prime Minister’s speech is full of lies and half-truths: Kharge

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge speaks during the Budget Session
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Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, in a sharp rebuttal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reply to the Motion of Thanks on the presidential address on Thursday (February 6, 2025), slammed Mr. Modi for living in the past.

“How can a person who just lives in history build the present and the future,” Mr. Kharge said in a post on X.

The Congress President alleged that the Prime Minister’s speech was “full of lies and half-truths”.

Mr. Kharge claimed that in the hands of this government, the “country’s future is dark” as Mr. Modi only kept cursing the Congress instead of talking about unemployment, inflation, economic inequality, recession, falling rupee, falling private investment and the failed ‘Make in India’.

Referring to the first amendment of the Constitution, Mr. Kharge said it was done to abolish zamindari, introduce land reforms and extend reservation for backward classes.

Countering Mr. Modi’s claim that the Congress didn’t want B.R. Ambedkar in the Constituent Assembly, Mr. Kharge said his party had made its member M.R. Jayakar resign from Mumbai to bring Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar to the Constituent Assembly.

“He [Dr. Ambedkar] became the first Law Minister of the country in Pandit [Jawaharlal] Nehru’s government. The Congress wanted Babasaheb to reach Rajya Sabha with respect and helped him in this. Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar himself wrote a letter and revealed that S.A. Dange and [Vinayak Damodar] Savarkar were responsible for his defeat,” the Congress chief said.