Congress: Act against PM's ‘misleading’ claims

New Delhi, NT Bureau: The Congress on Thursday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking action against the “inaccurate and misleading” state - ments made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP MP A nurag Thakur in Parliament.

In a letter to the Speaker, Congress MP Manickam Tagore said that the PM in his reply to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address claimed the Congress had made a “false promise” to give Rs 8,500 per month to women.

The Congress’ promise was conditional to its victory and the party forming the government, Tagore, who represents Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar seat, countered.

Tagore also noted that Modi had claimed that the Congress’ vote share had gone down in 16 states where it contested alone.

“This is factually incorrect,” Tagore said. The party’s vote share increased in states, including Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Telangana, he added. According to the letter, the PM’s allegation that “no bulletproof jackets [were provided] for the Army during the Congress’ time” was also “grossly misleading."