PM Modi: Congress pronouncement loaded with untruths

Pasighat (Arunachal Pradesh), Apr 3 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday attacked the Congress, naming its pronouncement as a "hypocrisy document" which was "full of lies".

Addressing his second rally in Arunachal Pradesh within a week, the prime minister cited to the Congress manifesto for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, and said it had guaranteed that each house would have electricity by 2009.

"However, till 2014 around 18,000 houses were unelectrified... Much the same as them (the Congress), their manifesto is corrupt and full of lies. Therefore, it should be called hypocrisy document, not a manifesto," Modi said.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi Tuesday released his party's manifesto for Lok Sabha polls, making jobs creation, tending to cultivate trouble, bringing a solitary moderate rate of GST and giving Rs 72,000 per annum to poor families as key focus if the party comes to power.

The prime minister also charged that the Congress was fooling farmer in the name of votes, while the BJP government has always been with them.

"We never dedicated the sin of betraying farmers but we introduced the mechanism from seed to market," the PM said.

Modi said the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will be about the choice between "trust and corruption, and about resolution and conspiracy".

Simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the state get together will be held on April 11.