Manish Tewari: PM Modi's 'victim-hood politics' to hide incompetence

Holding Prime Minister Narendra Modi solely responsible for lowering the political discourse in the country the Congress on Tuesday accused him of pursuing politics of victimhood in order to hide his incompetence and nonperformance of his governmentWondering as to when will Modi stop playing the victim card the Congress asked him to answer about challenges faced by the country including the rupee touching a historic low and the everrising fuel pricesWhy Modi needs to practise the politics of victimhood when he is fundamentally and primarily responsible for finding solutions to the problems and challenges faced by the countryModi has completely failed in addressing any of the issues and to hide his incompetence to cover the nonperformance of his government he is playing the victim card to deflect the peoples attention Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari told the media herePointing to Modis numerous rallies for the Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh Mizoram Madhya Pradesh Telangana and Rajasthan Tewari questioned as to why Modi never talked about his governments failure to fulfil the promise of generating 10 crore jobs or why the autonomy of the Reserve Bank of India RBI was attacked or about the irregularities in the deal to procure Rafale fighter jets from FranceThe only thing we get to hear from him are variants of victimhood You were given an absolute majority to run the country and we hope in the remaining days of campaigning we will get to hear from you about the performance of your government said the former Union MinisterTalking about the heated political campaign that has often witnessed leaders indulging in personal mudslinging Tewari blamed Modi for the political discourse going down on a daily basisWhen the Prime Minister for the last 53 months has been lowering the level of political discourse on a daily basis then rest of the leaders too feel that this ought to be the language said Tewari adding that Modi should pay heed to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs advice to him on the issueSingh on Monday had urged Modi to exercise due restraint in his public speeches observing that the Prime Minister must set the example for the peopleTewari also targeted Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who in his latest blog post has come down heavily on the Congress over dynasty politics saying Congress considers only a great surname as a political brandWhy doesnt the Finance Minister blog on the tumbling rupee or why the RBIs autonomy was attacked Why doesnt he write about why fuel prices are skyrocketing or why the current account deficit is constantly rising When will he answer these questionsThe problem is the Finance Minister talks on everything which doesnt concern his Ministryand the reason is clear that under him the economy is in tatters added TewariCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Except for the change in the headline the story has been provided ASIS AS AVAILABLE without any verification or editing from our side Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever