Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the ruling Samajwadi Party for its pre-poll alliance with Congress, likening it to a movie in which rivals befriend each other after the "interval".
Addressing an election rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj, Modi declared that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav does not know how "cunning Congress people are" and reminded him about an "assassination attempt", made on his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, in 1984 allegedly by a Congress leader.
Modi also attacked the opposition for creating hue and cry over demonetisation and leveling all kinds of allegations against him, saying "lies will not work as the people of the country are quite aware now".
Severely critical of Akhilesh for entering into the alliance with Congress, he said, "A film is being played on the political stage of Uttar Pradesh in which the opponents, who had attacked each other with slogans such as '27 saal UP behal' and taken out yatras in the first half, have turned friends after interval and have embraced each other."
(With inputs from PTI)
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