Cong calls PM Modi’s I-Day address ‘election speech filled with distortions’

The Congress on Tuesday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort on the occasion of 77th Independence Day, saying the PM gave an “election speech filled with distortions, lies, exaggerations and vague promises”. “On August 15, rather than reporting to the people what his government had achieved in the past nine years, Prime Minister Modi gave a crass election speech filled with distortions, lies, exaggerations and vague promises. “Instead of bringing the country together, to celebrate our journey so far, acknowledge the pain and anguish of those suffering, and accept the challenges ahead, he made it all about himself and his image,” Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications, Jairam Ramesh, said in statement.