Mahatma Gandhi wanted Congress disbanded, claims Modi

New Delhi: On a day the Congress sounded its poll bugle from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat, Mr Modi on Tuesday noted that Mahatma Gandhi had wanted the Congress disbanded. Mr Modi, in a blog titled ‘When a handful of salt shook an Empire!’ to mark the 89th anniversary of Mahatma’s Dandhi March, said the Congress’s culture is the “anti-thesis” of Gandhian thought whereas the BJP led NDA governmnent is “working on Bapu’s path and a Jan Shakti that is fulfilling his dream of freeing India from the Congress Culture.” Ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, the opposition party’s highest decision-making body, Congress Working Committee (CWC) met in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.

In the blog, the Prime Minister wrote how Mahatma Gandhi “taught us to think of the plight of the poorest person” and “we have seen and thought about how our work impacts that person.”

“I am proud to say that in all aspects of our government’s work, the guiding consideration is to see how it will alleviate poverty and bring prosperity. Sadly, the anti-thesis of Gandhian thought is the Congress culture,” Mr Modi said. The PM said that while Mahatama did not believe in inequality and caste divisions, “sadly, the Congress has never hesitated from dividing society.” He wrote how Mahatma had said that he does not believe in inequality and caste divisions and the “worst caste riots and anti-Dalit massacres happened under Congress rule.”

The Prime Minister said though Mahatma held that detachment and staying away from excess wealth was necessary, “all that the Congress has done is to fill their own bank accounts.”