Bengaluru
February 5, 2018
Actor Prakash Raj has taken a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata
Party-led NDA government at the Centre, a day after Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's rally in Karnataka.
Prakash on Monday took to Twitter and wrote a
cryptic message that said "Promise toothpaste sold in 2014" failed to bring
smiles to "distressed farmers or jobless youth".
"Promise toothpaste sold
in 2014 (forget brushing the teeth) could not bring a smile on distressed
farmers or jobless youth of my country. Do you believe Promise Toothpaste sold
yesterday in Karnataka rally? Will bring it? Just asking," Prakash tweeted.
Modi on Sunday launched a no-holds barred attack on the Congress as he
addressed the people at the culmination of BJP's 90-day long "journey to build a
new Karnataka" rally, across the poll-bound state.
The BJP could take
Karnataka to "new heights" with a focus on improving the lives of farmers and
creating better infrastructure", Modi said.
Sounding the election bugle,
the Prime Minister urged people to throw the "corrupt and dynastic" Congress out
of power in the state assembly polls due in late April or early May.
"There are still seven lakh homes in Karnataka which are in the dark with no
access to electricity even years after Independence. Electricity will brighten
their lives," Modi said.
The Union Budget's announcement of a suburban
train network for Bengaluru could benefit nearly 15 lakh passengers, the Prime
Minister said.
The party's state unit had opened an online registry and
used social media to personally invite the youth, techies, educated class and
prominent citizens to the venue, assuring them of seating arrangements.
The "Nava Karnataka Nirmana Parivartana Yatra", held with a view of bringing the
BJP back to power in the state on the plank of transforming Karnataka through
development, was led by its state unit chief and former Chief Minister B.S.
Yeddyurappa.
The BJP came to power on its own for the first time in 2008
but lost to the Congress after five years in the May 2013 assembly election.