Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the Congress and development cannot go hand in hand and accused the party of indulging in “nepotism and corruption”.

Addressing a rally in the Kanker district in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, Modi accused chief minister Bhupesh Baghel-led government of corruption and said that those who looted the state would not be spared.

Congress has committed the biggest betrayal with the youth of Chhattisgarh. They (Congress) did not fulfil their promises. On the contrary, they committed corruption in recruitment (for government jobs). They turned the state’s PSC into the office of the Congress Committee. Congress recruited their children and relatives,” Modi said.

Modi further accused the Congress of insulting Droupadi Murmu, the first tribal President of the country.

For the first time in the history of the country, the BJP decided to make the daughter of a tribal family the President, but Congress also opposed it, Modi said.

The opposition was not against the BJP rather it was against the tribal daughter. Every tribal of Chhattisgarh has to always remember this insult of the tribal daughter and take its revenge from Congress,” the PM said.