Congress rose so high, unable to see ground, lost roots: PM Modi in House

Targeting the Congress in his first speech in Parliament after winning the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said it has never recognised the efforts of anyone except members of the “family” and that its leaders have “risen so high” that they have lost touch with the country’s roots.

Replying to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address in Lok Sabha, Modi, while underscoring that the Congress had no right to repeatedly criticise him, attacked the Congress on the Emergency, for failing to empower Muslims and for ignoring its own leaders.

“From 2004 to 2014, not once did you mention the name of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. There are some people who feel only a few names contributed to national progress. They only want to hear those few names and ignore the others,” he said.