Congress a 'sinking ship', lacks leadership: Venkaiah Naidu

He further exuded confidence that BJP will wrest power in Karnataka from Congress in the 2018 assembly elections

Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu termed the Congress party as a "sinking ship" and members are leaving the party as it "lacks leadership".

Addressing BJP workers meeting here, he alleged that Congress lacks leadership and listed out the names of people who have left the party including Ajit Jogi, Gurudas Kamat and Vijay Bahaguna.

"Everybody is leaving Congress. It is a sinking ship...The party lack leadership," he said.

Naidu said about 35% of the country's population resides in BJP-ruled states while just 6% in Congress-governed ones like Mizoram, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka.

He exuded confidence that BJP will wrest power in Karnataka from Congress in the 2018 assembly elections.

Taking a dig at Congress, Left parties, SP, BSP, JD(U) and DMK, he said these "so-called secular" parties did not send a single MP to Rajya Sabha from minority community while BJP has two been elected members to the Upper House of Parliament.

In the recent elections for 57 seats in Rajya Sabha, BJP sent two minority members -- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and M J Akbar.

Listing out various scams that came out during Congress regime such as 2G, Commonweath Games, and coal blocks allocation, he said the "greatest" achievement of the Modi government in the last two years is that there was "no allegations, no scam".

Highlighting achievements of the government during the last two years, he asked BJP workers to reach out to maximum people and tell them about the various government initiatives.

He said that the inflation was in double digits during the Congress-led UPA rule it has come down to below 5% now.

He said government was taking various steps to control the prices of pulses and vegetables.

"Besides emphasising on increasing the production, the government is considering import of pulses and also check on hoarding to tame the prices," he said.

He also said the NDA government also plans to launch a "save democracy" campaign on June 26 to make people aware of the Emergency.