New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday launched a stinging attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that most of his promises during the election campaign were nothing more than “hawabaazi (empty talk)”.
Mrs Gandhi told the CWC the Modi government had “failed abysmally to match words with deeds, media events with actual accomplishments, match headlines with substance”, and added: “The U-turn on the Land Ordinance is evidence that the government is out of touch with ground realities.”
An angry BJP, led by HRD minister Smriti Irani, swiftly hit back, saying she was targeting Mr Modi to “hide her failures”.
The Congress president said it had “become painfully clear that most of the pledges made by the Prime Minister during his election campaign were nothing more than hawabaazi”, drawing attention to the government’s failure to check the downward slide in the economy and the rise in the prices of essential commodities, besides its failure to create new jobs.
Seeking to turn the tables on the Congress over Sonia Gandhi’s “hawabaazi” barb, HRD minister Smriti Irani said the real “hawabaazi” will be Rahul declaring himself a messiah of farmers as she attacked the Congress vice-chief on the Amethi land row.
“While guiding her decimated party, Sonia Gandhi today took the help of Modi’s name to hide the failures of her policies. She said nothing is happening on the ground. It was Congress which did “hawabaazi” for 40 years on the issue of OROP, while Modi had fulfilled that promise in 18 months.”
