New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday marked the twelfth anniversary of Narendra Modi’s authorities, and the Congress launched a marketing campaign titled “12 years of Modi failure”, accusing the prime minister of selling anti-poverty financial insurance policies, favoring large companies and making an attempt to rewrite historical past.
The celebration additionally focused the federal government over points it mentioned embrace medical collapse, paper leak scandals, welfare insurance policies affecting ladies and the promotion of unscientific concepts in academic establishments.
Opposition chief Rahul Gandhi described the Modi authorities’s tenure as “12 years of anti-poverty financial coverage and compromising international coverage” and questioned why unusual folks have been being made to bear the burden of what he referred to as the federal government’s failures.
“Mr. Modi, will it’s solely the poor who will bear the burden of your failures? Will it solely be the employees, farmers, ladies and center class who pays the value for this crumbling financial system that you’ve got constructed?” Gandhi wrote about X.
Twelve years of anti-poverty financial insurance policies and a compromising international coverage have left the nation as we speak with thousands and thousands of poor households and ladies pressured into poisonous wooden smoke.
The variety of sponsored cylinders beneath Ujjwala scheme has been lowered from 9 to 4.
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 9, 2026
He argued that anti-poverty financial insurance policies have pressured thousands and thousands of poor households and ladies again into utilizing wooden stoves. Mr. Gandhi additionally claimed that whereas the variety of sponsored LPG cylinders accessible beneath the Ujjwala scheme has been lowered from 9 to 4, the value of LPG cylinders within the nation has elevated by Rs 89 within the final three months.
Mr Gandhi accused the federal government of favoring large enterprise, saying: “Arranging thousands and thousands of {dollars} value of debt aid for billionaire buddies and shifting the blame for his or her failures onto the poor – that is Mr Modi’s mannequin of plunder.”
“Massive Claims, Damaged Financial Guarantees”
Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah additionally mentioned that the Bharatiya Janata Get together’s celebrations to mark the completion of Prime Minister Modi’s 12-year time period was an affront to democracy, alleging that the Modi authorities had undermined democratic establishments and constitutional values to remain in energy.
He informed X that the federal government’s claims of success distinction sharply with the present state of the nation’s democratic system and recommended that the Bharatiya Janata Get together’s self-congratulatory discuss was wishful pondering.
The Congress shared Ghalib’s quote, “Dil Bereen ko Ghalib yeh khayal acha hai” together with a picture of Jawaharlal Nehru.
The celebration additionally launched one other poster with the caption “Massive Claims, Damaged Financial Guarantees”, depicting the disconnect between the Modi authorities’s propaganda and its precise financial efficiency over the previous 12 years.
The celebration mentioned claims of financial success must be evaluated towards indicators corresponding to the event of the rupee, family debt ranges and India’s broader financial place.
A number of Congress leaders additionally challenged the Bharatiya Janata Get together management’s description of Narendra Modi as India’s longest-serving prime minister.
Senior Congress chief Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stays India’s longest-serving prime minister and maintained that the Bharatiya Janata Get together’s claims have been based mostly on technicalities.
“The Bharatiya Janata Get together’s newest propaganda effort deserves a actuality verify,” Singhvi wrote in X. “Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stays India’s longest-serving Prime Minister. The Bharatiya Janata Get together’s argument relies on the technicality of conveniently utilizing the phrase ‘longest-serving elected president’, counting solely from January 26, 1950.”
The BJP’s newest propaganda effort deserves a actuality verify.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stays India’s longest serving prime minister. The BJP’s argument relies on the technicality of counting solely from January 26, 1950 and conveniently utilizing the phrase “longest tenure…”.
— Abhishek Singhvi (@DrAMSinghvi) June 10, 2026
Singhvi claimed that India’s journey as an impartial nation started on August 15, 1947, and accused the Bharatiya Janata Get together of making an attempt to falsify data by means of “semantic whitewashing and headline administration”.
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh echoed the criticism, claiming that by focusing solely on PM Modi’s milestones, the Bharatiya Janata Get together was making an attempt to decrease the contributions of leaders like Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Dr BR Ambedkar, Dr Rajendra Prasad, C Rajagopalachari and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
Ramesh additionally identified that the Bharatiya Janata Get together didn’t safe a single majority within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and contrasted Modi’s efficiency with that of Nehru, who led the Congress to decisive victories within the 1952, 1957 and 1962 basic elections.
The Congress criticism comes after the Bharatiya Janata Get together management celebrated the twelfth anniversary of the Modi authorities and highlighted achievements of its 4,399 days in energy, together with the abrogation of Article 370, consecration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, emergence of UPI because the world’s largest real-time cost system, implementation of GST, and introduction of Vande Bharat trains.
(Edited by Sugita Katiyal)
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