Congress leaders medal winners in telling lies: PM Modi says 'shocked' at Rahul's fisheries remark

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a dig at the fallen Congress government in Puducherry saying that the wind is changing its direction in the union territory.

Stating that Puducherry didn't get a people's government in 2019, PM Modi said, "Puducherry deserves a government whose high command is the people of Puducherry not a small group of Congress leaders sitting in Delhi. NDA assures Puducherry - the next government will be a people-powered government."

While addressing a rally in Puducherry, the prime minister said that the high-command Congress government in Puducherry made it a point to damage every sector of governance. "Traditional mills were closed. Local industry was troubled. The Congress doesn't believe in working for the people," he said.

During his visit, PM Modi inaugurated a slew of completed projects and laid the foundation stone for others, including in the ports and highways sectors. The prime minister inaugurated a Blood Centre at state-run JIPMER, a Sports Authority of India (SAI) girls hostel at Lawspet and a reconstructed Heritage Mairie Building.

He also said that he "was shocked" at Rahul Gandhi's "will make fisheries ministry" remark as they had made one in 2019. "Our colonial rulers had the policy of divide and rule. Congress has a policy of divide, lie and rule. Sometimes their leaders put region against region, community against community," he said.

He further added that Congress leaders are gold, silver and bronze medal winners in telling lies.

Modi laid the foundation stone for the four-laning of Sattanathapuram-Nagapattinam National Highway section, Medical College Building at Karaikal New Campus of JIPMER-Phase I and the development of Minor Port at Puducherry under Sagarmala scheme. He also laid the foundation stone of Synthetic Athletic Track, Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in the Union Territory.