Chennai

“The illusion surrounding Prime Minister Modi, created by the BJP, is fading away. His speeches in Assam and West Bengal show his desperation even as the people of Bihar had earlier rejected him,” he told reporters here. 

Raja accused Modi and his government of indulging in “lip service” by launching schemes like Skill India and Startup India and dubbed its basic policies as “pro-corporate”. The country’s economy and agricultural and industrial sectors were all facing crisis.”

Does the government have any plans to end poverty? Where are the acchey din (good days) Modi promised?” Raja asked while accusing the government of favouring big corporates. 

Slamming RSS for allegedly promoting Hindutva policies, Raja alleged that the BJP had become a “political arm, a tool of RSS, whose ideology is communal, sectarian and divisive one”. 

The “mask” of RSS of being a social, cultural organisation had come off and it is now “influencing” the BJP government, he alleged.

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