BJP Says It Stands for Credibility of Promises Under PM Modi, Congress for Crisis

New Delhi: BJP on Saturday asserted that it stood for credibility of promises me to people under Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's leership and Congress for crisis of credibility, as ruling party fired a fresh salvo at its rival in a war of words between m over unkept poll pledges.

BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi told reporters that ruling party h grually stepped up scope of its welfare schemes, ranging from health insurance to free grains and cash transfer for farmers, by resorting to first creation of wealth followed by its distribution as size of Indian economy grew over past dece.

"We believe in first creation of wealth and distribution. Congress stands for creation of corruption and destruction of wealth," he said, citing a host of alleged unfulfilled promises of Congress-led governments in different states.

A day after Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that "Modi ki guarantee" was a cruel joke on people after prime minister h seized on Congress president's vice to his state colleagues that y should be guided by budgetary constraints in making poll announcements, BJP me a fresh charge.

Was Kharge speaking truth on Friday or a day before, Trivedi said mockingly, suggesting that Congress president's attack on BJP was me under pressure to cover up for what he h said earlier.

Trivedi cited construction of Ram temple, abolition of Article 370, construction of more than 14 crore houses for poor, opening of over 51 crore Jan Dhan accounts, and India's tough stand against Pakistan on terrorism under Modi to assert that his government h walked talk.

As a veteran Congress member who has served in senior positions, Kharge has seen leers such as PV Narasimha Rao and Pranab Mukherjee, who deftly handled economy under difficult circumstances, and is now seeing party under grip of urban Naxals due to Rahul Gandhi 's influence, Trivedi said.

Rebutting Kharge's charges on a host of issues, Trivedi said EPFO (Employees' Provident Fund Organisation) data suggested that its account holders h grown to 25 crore compared to 11 crore a dece ago.

He also cited a host of infrastructure work, including construction of houses for poor, 74 airports and 37 kilometres of ro per day, and asserted that all se activities h led to a lot of employment.

India is now third in auto manufacturing and second in mobile phones manufacturing and if anyone still cannot see country's development, n re is some serious weakness in ir sight and mindset, BJP spokesperson said.

When BJP was in power in Karnataka, it was top state in attracting investment while Maharashtra under Congress-led alliance's rule h slipped, he said, ding that situation was reversed after BJP came to power in western state while losing to Congress in sourn state.

" brains of some parties are so empty that y end up emptying treasury when in power," he said.

Congress, Trivedi alleged, h lost ability to govern, noting that its promise to provide one woman in every household Rs 1 lakh annually would have cost country Rs 31 lakh crore even though its entire budget was only about Rs 27 lakh crore.

It was like a Ponzi scheme promise and could be part of a well thought-out conspiracy as Congress believes in triggering chaos, he said.

Citing welcome Modi received recently in US, Russia and Ukraine from ir top leers, BJP spokesperson said it was a testimony to prime minister's standing.

Any attempt to belittle him will have no impact on his popularity, reputation and image, he ded.

To a question, he refuted opposition MP Asuddin Owaisi 's claim on Waqf boards, saying se were not religious bodies but constituted for land management.

recent remarks of National Conference leer Farooq Abdullah suggest that he has realised after coming to power need to deal with anti-national forces, Trivedi said, expressing hope that Jammu and Kashmir government under his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah would cooperate with Centre to curb terrorism.

Modi said on Friday that Congress stood "bly exposed" in front of people for promising m what party knew it would never be able to deliver.

prime minister launched a fierce attack on opposition party as he seized on Kharge's comments that Congress' state units should make promises that were properly budgeted.

Hitting back, Congress president Kharge h said BJP stood for "betrayal" and "jumla", alleging that lies, deceit, fakery, loot and publicity were five jectives that best described Modi government.