{"id":227867,"date":"2023-11-06T00:15:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=227867"},"modified":"2023-11-06T00:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:45:35","slug":"congress-wants-to-make-mp-its-atm-for-ls-polls-modi-takes-dig-over-karnataka-power-tussle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/congress-wants-to-make-mp-its-atm-for-ls-polls-modi-takes-dig-over-karnataka-power-tussle\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress wants to make MP its ATM for LS polls Modi takes dig over Karnataka &#8216;power tussle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khandwa, Nov 5 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged the Congress wanted to turn Madhya Pradesh into an &#8220;ATM&#8221; for generating funds for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a rally in Khandwa in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, Modi alleged the Congress was always concerned about the development of a single family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPeople have to save the state from the clutches of Congress. Ensure that it won&#8217;t go into the wrong hands. Do you know why Congress is desperate to form a government in Madhya Pradesh? It wanted to make MP its ATM in view of the Lok Sabha elections. They want to loot money of state stashed in tractors,\u201d Modi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When the Congress was in power at the Center, it had indulged in scams worth lakhs and crores and was not worried about the people, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But now the people have recognised them and thrown them out of power from every corner of the country and therefore, they are looking at the states with a lot of greed,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modi alleged wherever the Congress government was formed &#8220;by mistake&#8221;, a competition to loot the state between its chief minister and his deputy is taking place and such news is coming regularly from Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also took a veiled jibe at Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh and Kamal Nath over the latter&#8217;s &#8220;tear clothes&#8221; remarks, which had raised speculation about differences between the two former chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh ahead of polls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Congress&#8217; hunger for money grew manifold after remaining out of power for many years,&#8221; the PM said and referred to media reports about the plundering of money by the ruling party in Rajasthan and other states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also exuded confidence to come back to power for the third consecutive time in the country and urged people to ensure that they vote for forming a BJP government in Madhya Pradesh to take advantage of the double-engine growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modi said his government would spend Rs 15,000 crore for the welfare of the Bhaira, Baiga and Saharia tribes through a special mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khandwa, Nov 5 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged the Congress wanted to turn Madhya Pradesh into an &#8220;ATM&#8221; for generating funds for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Addressing a rally in Khandwa in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, Modi alleged the Congress was always concerned about the development of a single family. \u201cPeople have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}