Modi slams Congress for praising `only one family' for development

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit out at the Congress for eulogizing “only one family”, saying that the country did not get independence or achieve development solely because of it.

He was speaking after laying the foundation stone of Veerangana Rani Durgavati Memorial and Garden here and other projects. He also inaugurated a slew of development projects in the poll-bound Madhya Pradesh on this occasion.

“The party that remained in power for decades has done only one thing, just eulogizing one family. Neither the nation got its independence because of just one family, nor did it develop because of them,” Modi said at the public meeting, without naming the Congress or the Gandhi family.