PM Modi uses 2014 election-style speech in Parliament to tear into Congress

zIndicates one five-year term too little to fulfill promises and to correct legacy issues of long years of 'corrupt and divisive' Congress rule

While senior ministers in the Narendra Modi government have ruled out an early Lok Sabha election, the Prime Minister on Wednesday launched an attack on the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and the Congress party that was reminiscent of his public speeches during his election campaign in the run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Irrespective or whether or not the Lok Sabha elections are advanced to end of 2018, the PM’s reply in the Lok Sabha to the motion of thanks to the President’s address was akin to an election speech.

The over hour-long speech, amid much slogan shouting by the