"Hisab do" — that’s the Congress’s latest slogan, a call for accountability from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his failed promises.

Launched on Thursday, the "hisab do" campaign is an inquest of the Prime Minister’s old pledges of 2014 as he tries to swamp the electoral discourse with new promises in the form of "Modi Ki Guarantee".

While the 2014 promise of "Achchhe Din (Good Days)" included bringing down prices, cooking gas, petrol, CNG, diesel, milk, pulses and edible oil now cost almost double.

The Congress has launched the "hisab do" campaign on social media at a time its regular media campaign has been delayed by a resource crunch, accentuated by the freezing of the party’s accounts.

The campaign accuses Modi of failure on every front, from job creation to women’s safety, from the promised doubling of farmers’ income to the rising atrocities against women and Dalits.

The campaign alleges that while the government mouthed the “Beti Bachao” slogan, the tormentors of women received protection. It details several crimes that BJP leaders have been accused of and demands: “Hisab do.”

The tenor and spirit of the campaign seem inspired by the party’s successful 2004 campaign when it countered the BJP’s “India Shining” slogan with the piercing query: “Aam aadmi ko kya mila (What has the common man got)?”

The “hisab do” campaign tells Modi: “When women athletes won medals, you shook hands with them but when they fought for justice against sexual exploitation, you unleashed forces to silence them.”

It covers a range of failures and what it calls betrayals, from leaks of exam papers to the Agnipath scheme of temporary military recruitment, from the failure to grant farmers legally guaranteed minimum support prices to the waiver of corporate loans allegedly worth Rs 16 lakh crore.

Party president Mallikarjun Kharge posted an audiovisual graphic explaining the government’s performance with the message: “Modi Ki Guarantee = Jhooth Ki Warranty.”

The graphic deals with every element of Modi’s “Achchhe Din” promise and claims the people were fooled.

The Congress has also begun digging up old videos showing Modi talking about black money being brought back from foreign banks and distributed among citizens, creating 2 crore jobs every year, lifting the rupee against the dollar, and reducing prices.

One dollar is now worth Rs 83 and the Congress has seized the opportunity to remind Modi of his old remark, made as challenger to Manmohan Singh, that the Prime Minister’s prestige falls with the value of the currency.

The BJP has built its current “Modi Ki Guarantee” campaign too on the Prime Minister’s personal credibility. But the issues Modi talks about now are the fulfilment of promises such as building the Ram temple, scrapping Article 370, abolishing the triple talaq and raising India’s prestige in the world. The Congress has been struggling to pin him down on the core popular concerns of prices and jobs.

The Congress is also projecting its 25 guarantees, which offer solutions to the problems of farmers, workers, the youth and women and offers “bhagidari” (representation) to disadvantaged communities.

On Thursday, Rahul Gandhi reacted to the government’s revision of the rural job scheme wages, saying: “Congratulations to MGNREGA workers! The Prime Minister has increased your wages by Rs 7. He may now ask, ‘What will you do with this big windfall?’”

He added: “He may launch a ‘Thank you Modiji’ campaign for this spending of Rs 700 crore. Those upset with Modi’s boundless generosity should keep this in mind — the INDIA government will increase daily wages to Rs 400 on the very first day of forming the government.”