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Rahul daydreaming to become PM: Modi
Taking a swipe at Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said he is daydreaming to become the prime minister in 2019. \"He is not concerned about the Congress, its traditions or the leaders. He is dreaming all the time to become prime minister in 2019,\" Modi told a gathering at an election rally in Chikmagalur.
Chikmagalur: Taking a swipe at Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said he is daydreaming to become the prime minister in 2019. "He is not concerned about the Congress, its traditions or the leaders. He is dreaming all the time to become prime minister in 2019," Modi told a gathering at an election rally in Chikmagalur.
Without mentioning the name of Rahul Gandhi, Modi said he was promoted by the party despite doing nothing. "The naamdar who does not have confidence in his alliance partners... who doesn't care for Congress' internal democracy, whose arrogance has reached cloud seven, and is declaring himself that he would be the prime minister in 2019. .... will the country ever accept such an immature 'naamdar' leader?" Modi said.
"Congress could win just 40 seats in Parliament. It has lost in almost all states in the last four years. But the ego of 'naamdar' is still bloated. He says that he will become PM in 2019. Isn't this his ego?" he said. Modi said the Gandhi family had a feeling that the post of Prime Minister was reserved for them. "No one can sit on that position. It is their right (they think)." "This family has nothing to do with democracy. So, they find ways to undermine it," he added.
Modi's attack came a day after Gandhi said he was ready to occupy the prime minister's post if his party emerged as the "biggest" party in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, making known his ambition for the topmost executive post.
"Yesterday in Karnataka and India's politics something happened. All of a sudden one person came and he declared.....did not care about others who are standing in the line. Did not care about other coalition partners.
"There are leaders waiting for 40 years....he came all of a sudden and placed his bucket, and said I will become the prime minister," Modi said during the final lap of his campaign blitz in election-bound Karnataka, where voting will be held on May 12.
Speaking about attempts to forge and anti-BJP front, Modi said, "big, big meetings are happening, big, big stalwarts are meeting" to remove him from power, but keeping them all in the dark Gandhi declared he will be the prime minister.
