PM 'cynically exploiting' national security issue to divert attention from 'colossal failures': Cong

The Congress Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "cynically exploiting" the issue of national security to divert attention from his "colossal failures" and "persistent falsehoods" and asserted it won't allow him to befool the people again.

Seeking to send out a strong message to the people from Narendra Modi's home state Gujarat, the Congress said it will appeal with humility a mandate for change in the Lok Sabha elections for providing better governance and repair the damage caused to the economy and the country by the BJP government.

The strong attack on the prime minister came in the resolution adopted by the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision-making body of the party, which was chaired by party president Rahul Gandhi and attended by all senior leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Ahmed Patel and Ghulam Nabi Azad besides Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

The Congress also urged all democratic and progressive forces to unite and pool their energies to relentlessly fight and expose the BJP government, and not to allow the nation's political narrative be vitiated and focus deflected from the real issues that concern the people.

Rahul Gandhi earlier said no sacrifice was "too great" to defeat the RSS and BJP ideology of "fascism, hatred, anger and divisiveness".

In his speech at the CWC meeting held at Sardar Patel National Memorial, he underlined the need to fight such forces together and said, "On the anniversary of Gandhi ji's historic Dandi March, the Congress Working Committee in Ahmedabad, resolved to defeat the RSS/BJP ideology of fascism, hatred, anger and divisiveness."