After casting his vote on Sunday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of injecting hatred to garner votes, while the Congress spread love in the Lok Sabha election battle. Gandhi also asserted that ‘love is going to win’ in this election.
“The election was fought on key issues including demonetization, farmer problems, Gabbar Singh Tax and corruption in Rafale. Narendra Modi used hatred in the campaign and we used love and I am confident love will win,” Gandhi told the media after voting in the New Delhi parliamentary constituency.
Congress President @RahulGandhi after casting his vote: The election was fought on key issues including demonetization, farmer problems, Gabbar Singh Tax and corruption in #Rafale. Narendra Modi used hatred in the campaign and we used love and I am confident love will win pic.twitter.com/BGoCSAUYsm
— NewsMobile (@NewsMobileIndia) May 12, 2019
The Rafale deal made it his list of four major issues on which the national elections are being contested on. “The elections have been fought on four issues – unemployment, demonetisation, farmers issues and corruption in Rafale jet deal (to benefit) Anil Ambani,” Gandhi added.
However, he declined to comment on the number of seats the Congress could win in the election. “The people will decide that,” he said.
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In this election, Gandhi is also contesting from Kerala’s Wayanad apart from his family bastion of Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi, where he is the sitting lawmaker.
Polling is being held today on all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi, eight seats in Bihar, all ten seats in Haryana, eight in Madhya Pradesh, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, eight in West Bengal and four in Jharkhand.
The seventh and last phase of national elections will take place on May 19. Counting of votes will take place on May 23.