Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday, appealed to Punjab voters garnering votes for the Congress. Singh wrote that only Congress can ensure a growth-oriented progressive future where democracy and the Constitution will be safeguarded.
The senior Congress leader also hit out at the BJP government for imposing an "ill-conceived" Agniveer scheme on the armed forces.
"The BJP thinks that the value of patriotism, bravery, and service is only four years. This shows their fake nationalism," he said in a letter to voters of Punjab.
Mounting an attack on Prime Minister Modi, Singh said, "I have been keenly following the political discourse during this election campaign. Modi ji has indulged in the most vicious form of hate speeches, which are purely divisive in nature. Modi ji is the first prime minister to lower the dignity of public discourse, and thereby the gravity of the office of the prime minister."
"No prime minister in the past has uttered such hateful, unparliamentary, and coarse terms, meant to target either a specific section of the society or the opposition. He has also attributed some false statements to me. I have never in my life singled out one community from the other. That is the sole copyright of the BJP," the former prime minister said.
PM Modi had accused Singh of saying that Muslims have the first right on the country's resources.
Singh said the people of India are seeing through all of this.
"This narrative of dehumanisation has now reached its peak. It is now our duty to save our beloved nation from these forces of discord," Singh said in the letter.
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