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BJP trying to create 'hyper-nationalistic environment'

New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi has accused the BJP of trying to create a 'hyper-nationalistic environment' ahead of the Lok Sabha polls only to distract people from the issues of unemployment, agrarian crisis and what he called 'massive failures' of the Modi government.

The comments by Gandhi come against the backdrop of indications that the BJP may use the Indian Air Force(IAF) strikes on terror group JeM's largest training camp in Balakot in Pakistan on February 26 after the Pulwama attack as a central plank of its election campaign. A JeM suicide bomber attacked a CRPF convoy in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir on February 14 killing 40 jawans.

Describing the upcoming elections as all about making a choice between India of Mahatma Gandhi and that of his assassin Nathuram Godse, Rahul Gandhi also alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi generates 'hate' and that his brand of politics was 'hateful' with consequent costs.

In Gandhi's view, a majority for the Congress-led UPA coalition is a certainty and that his party will do much better than expected. Congress' tally of 44 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls was an all-time low for the party.

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