In Jharkhand, PM Modi delves into state's creation to launch blistering attack on Congress

In a blistering attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the party had always avoided taking decisions on matters of national interest. Addressing a poll rally, Modi asserted that he never cared about vote-bank politics, but have always believed in working for the welfare of people.

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PM Modi slams Congress in Jharkhand

"The Congress had deliberately kept the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute hanging for decades. Matters of national interest are secondary for them,"

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"They had also kept the issue of Jharkhand's creation pending for five decades. It was the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government that created Jharkhand," he asserted.

Listing the achievements of the BJP-led government at the Centre and the state, he said the Jal-jeevan mission, launched earlier this year, will end the water crisis, "faced by our mothers and sisters".

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