Congress chief coins ‘new word Modilie for PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been the target of many swipes from the
Congress president Rahul Gandhi who has accused him of misleading the
public, shifting the goalpost and outright lying.
Gandhi, 48, on
Wednesday coined a word to capture the essence of the many barbs that he
hurls at the Prime Minister. He called it Modilie. “There’s a new word
in the English Dictionary. Attached is a snapshot of the entry :),” the
Congress chief tweeted on Wednesday evening. The ‘dictionary entry’ that
Rahul Gandhi tweeted had defined the word as: “to constantly Modify the
truth”, “to lie incessantly and habitually” and “to lie without
respite”.
The Congress and its senior leaders, who have been PM
Modi’s sharpest and consistent critics, have in recent weeks increased
the frequency of their attacks on the prime minister accusing him of
lying to the public. On Tuesday, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra – who
had taken out a roadshow in Pathankot – had described PM Modi as the
“biggest abhineta” (actor) who she said, had spent the last five years
campaigning using “lies and falsehoods”.
Rahul Gandhi too never
tires of telling people that PM Modi had lied to them five years ago
when he promised to deposit Rs 15 lakh in bank account, generate 2 crore
jobs every year and get farmers a fair price. Campaigning in Odisha
during the ongoing seven-phase national elections, Rahul Gandhi had
claimed that PM Modi had spoken more lies than all prime ministers put
together. “There have been so many prime ministers in India. But the
volume of lies that this prime minister speaks is more than the combined
lies spoken by all previous prime ministers,” Gandhi said during an
interaction with women in Odisha’s Koraput.