JAMMU: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, on Sunday said that he will only die after Prime Minister Narendra Modi is defeated in the elections and removed from power.
The Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge fell sick while addressing a public gathering on Sunday in the Jasrota belt of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district.
In a video of the incident, Kharge momentarily paused his speech, prompting other Congress leaders on the dais to gather around him for support.
After taking a brief pause, Kharge returned to the stage and made a pointed remark about the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), stating, “I will stay alive till PM Narendra Modi is removed from power.”
“We will fight to restore statehood. I am 83 years old, I am not going to die so early. I will stay alive till PM Modi is removed from power,” The AICC president said .
He accused the Prime Minister of ‘shedding false tears for the future of the youth’ of the Valley during his rallies. “The reality is that in the last 10 years, the youth of the entire country have been pushed into darkness for which Modi himself is responsible,” Kharge said, claiming that unemployment has risen during the Modi regime.
“Unemployment figures have just come. The highest unemployment in 45 years is the contribution of Modiji. 65 per cent posts are vacant in government departments in Jammu and Kashmir. The jobs here are being given to outsiders on contractual and daily wages jobs,” Kharge said.
Meanwhile, Jammu Kashmir Congress party’s media coordinator Neeraj Sharma said Mallikarjun Kharge is now stable, and doctors are attending to him. He said Kharge was paying tribute to a head constable who was killed in an ongoing operation with terrorists in Kathua. Two other police personnel have been injured in the incident and one terrorist has been killed. He is also scheduled to address another public rally in Ramnagar in Udhampur district. (KNO)