Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "mangalsutra" remarks, "inheritance tax" and "wealth redistribution" claims during election rallies, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a letter Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a letter to the PM saying that he would "be happy to meet him to explain the reality of the Congress manifesto" and criticised him for his "persistent efforts to distort and defame it".
In the letter, he asked PM Modi to not get carried away by his party's applause and claimed they are praising him and "not allowing him to hear the crores of right-thinking citizens who are disappointed" by his speeches.
In the letter, Kharge hit out at PM Modi over his recent "mangalsutra" remarks saying that the PM and his government have turned away from the atrocities faced by the poor and backward women in India.
"Today you talk about mangalsutra. Isn't your government responsible for the atrocities against women in Manipur, against Dalit girls, garlanding of rapists? When farmers are committing suicides under your government, how are you protecting their wives and children?", he questioned asking him to read the Nari Nyay section of the Congress manifesto, which he said would be implemented once the party is voted to power.
Kharge, in the letter, also slammed PM Modi for seizing on a few words and taking them out of context to "create a communal divide".
"You are lowering the dignity of the chair by speaking in this manner. When all of this is over, people will remember that the Prime Minister used such vulgar language for fear of losing an election," the letter read.
Kharge also spoke about GST and demonetisation in the letter and criticised the Modi government for using the latter as an "organised loot and legalised plunder to transfer the money in poor people's banks to the rich in the form of loans".
He then went on to criticise the Modi-led government for "surreptitiously writing-off these loans as part of a conscious design" and "transferring wealth from poor to rich".
Kharge also wrote in the letter that the prime minister is being misinformed by his advisors about things that are not even written in their manifesto.