Priyanka Gandhi challenges PM Modi to fight an election on people's problems

Bengaluru: Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday threw a challenge at the PM to fight an election on people’s problems without raising issues of the past, make people fight or talk on terror and prove his worth.

She admitted that terror is a big problem and many people are working to end terror but questioned Modi that how terror is an issue in Karnataka poll.

Speaking at an election campaign in Mandya, Priyanka said the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders indulge in ‘useless’ talks during election campaign rather than focusing on problems of the people such as unemployment, rise in prices of essential commodities. She observed that in an election, voters problems should be heard and voters should be told how a party would address their problems.

But, she said, BJP leaders do not speak on any of the issues such as unemployment, women burdened by rise in prices of essential goods, traders worried over losses among others and stated that farmers and contractors in Karnataka resorting to suicides and BJP which ruled the State cannot show their faces to the people since problems of the people have doubled instead of coming down.

Priyanka was confident that voters of Karnataka would vote for change in the ensuing Assembly polls and asked the voters to elect a Congress government with a comfortable majority.