Former PM Manmohan Singh on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of utilizing hateful, unparliamentary language to focus on both a selected part of society or opposition.  He wrote a letter to Punjab’s voters forward of the 7^th section of Lok Sabha elections on June 1.

Singh appealed to the voters that they’ve 1 closing probability to make sure that democracy and India’s Structure are protected against the repeated assaults of a despotic regime, making an attempt to unleash dictatorship in India. Manmohan Singh mentioned the prime minister indulged in essentially the most vicious type of hate speeches. He mentioned PM Modi has lowered the dignity of public discourse.

Singh mentioned he has been carefully monitoring the political discourse throughout this yr’s election marketing campaign and PM Modi has indulged in essentially the most vicious type of hate speeches, that are purely divisive in nature. He mentioned PM Modi is the primary PM to decrease the dignity of public discourse, and thereby the gravity of the workplace of the prime minister.

The senior Congress chief mentioned no prime minister previously has uttered such hateful, unparliamentary and coarse phrases, meant to focus on both a selected part of the society or the opposition. He has additionally attributed some false statements to him. Singh additional added that he had by no means in his life singled out one group from the opposite and that is the only real copyright of the BJP.

PM Modi had accused Manmohan Singh of claiming that Muslims have the primary proper on the nation’s sources. The previous PM additionally criticised the saffron social gathering for imposing the Agniveer Scheme on the armed forces, labeling it as ill-conceived. He accused the BJP of undermining patriotism, bravery, and repair by limiting their worth to simply 4 years and highlighted it as pretend nationalism. The Congress social gathering has subsequently promised to abolish the Agniveer Scheme.