Narendra Modi govt runs on gimmickry: Ahmed Patel

Lashing out at the Narendra Modi-led NDA government, senior Congress leader and Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel said that it is a government that “runs on gimmickry”. Patel was speaking at a party function organised in Vadodara on Saturday. The state-level extended working committee meet was being organised for the first time after Bharatsinh Solanki was elevated as the Gujarat Congress president in May this year. The meet – organised to rejuvenate party workers ahead of impending local self government and civic polls in the state – was attended by senior party leaders, including the leader of the opposition in Gujarat Assembly, Shankersinh Vaghela, party’s Gujarat in-charge Gurudas Kamat, Arjun Modhwadia, Bharatsinh Solanki, among others. “This is a U-turn government that runs only on empty rhetoric and gimmickry,” Patel said while addressing the party workers, highlighting how the current government failed on its pre-poll promises and misappropriated policies and programmes that were launched by the Congress-led UPA government. Patel said there was an opportunity for the party to assert itself in the backdrop of the fading popularity of Modi-led UPA government which has failed to deliver on promises 14 months after it was elected. He said people have started realising that they have been cheated and that “Gujarat model is a model to cheat people”. He exhorted party workers to look for opportunity in the “worsening public perception and sentiments regarding the current government”.

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