PM does not understand history, Rahul tells Goa voters
The Hindu
Modi diverting Goans’ attention from failures of BJP govt., says Cong. leader
Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statements about the Congress under Jawaharlal Nehru allegedly being responsible for delaying Goa’s liberation from the Portuguese rule, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Mr. Modi did not understand history and was distracting the Goan people ahead of the election to hide the failures of the ruling BJP government.
Speaking in Margao in South Goa on the last day of campaigning, Mr. Gandhi censured Mr. Modi for his remarks during a rally in Mapusa that if then PM Jawaharlal Nehru had so wanted, then Goa could have been liberated “within hours” in 1947 when the rest of India became Independent.Mr. Modi had further alleged the Nehru-led Congress government of ‘destroying’ Goa’s liberation movement that was fighting to shake-off Portuguese yoke.