India will be 'Congress-free' if BJP keeps nation 'drought-free': Sanjay Raut

Mumbai: In a fresh piece of advice to its ally BJP, Shiv Sena has said that until BJP finds a solution to drought, floods, poverty its dream of keeping India free of Congress will not become a reality.

In a fiery editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana, Shiv Sena said, ''Prior to elections, Narendra Modi had promised a ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’. We achieved that in the general elections. All this poverty, drought and unemployment is the legacy of the Congress. The country will not be free of Congress until we get rid of all these.''

Jab tak desh "sookhagrast mukt" nahin ho jaata, tab tak "Congress mukt Bharat" ka koi mahatv nahin hai: Sanjay Raut pic.twitter.com/XoPWz7dZgP

— ANI (@ANI_news) April 28, 2016

Shiv Sena also advised the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit drought-hit parts of Bundelkhand and Marathwada to realise the scale of drought in these regions and the difficulties being faced by people here.

Aap (Modi ji) sookha mukt Bharat kariye, apne aap desh Congress mukt ho jayega. Sookha 50 saal ki den hai: Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sena

— ANI (@ANI_news) April 28, 2016

Meanwhile, Maharashtra's Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar has also squarely blamed the Congress and the governments that it has run in the state for the ongoing drought that has left hundreds of thousands of people in various districts in a parched and hapless state.

Mungantiwar, while participating in a TV show, spoke on the crisis brought on by the drought as well on several other important issues related both to the BJP and the government it runs in Maharashtra under the leadership of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

"Congress brought this distress to the farmers. We are providing water through trains in Latur but our main worry is what development has the Congress done till now? The condition has become so worse that we have to deliver water through trains, Mungantiwar said.