Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said the strength of the opposition alliance is making the government "nervous" and warned INDIA bloc partners to prepare for vendetta politics as there will be more "misuse" of agencies against them.

Addressing the opposition meeting here, he launched a frontal attack on the government saying the communal poison that the BJP and RSS have allegedly spread over the last nine years is now seen in hate crimes against innocent train passengers and school children.

His apparent reference was to the incidents of a railway police constable fatally shooting people on board a train and a teacher at a Muzaffarnagar school asking students to slap their Muslim classmate for not completing his homework.

In his opening remarks, Kharge said the success of both the meetings in Patna and Bengaluru can be measured by the fact that the prime minister in his subsequent speeches has not just attacked INDIA but has also allegedly "compared the name of our beloved country with a terrorist organisation and a symbol of slavery". "We should be prepared for more attacks in the coming months, more raids and arrests due to this government's vendetta politics. The more ground our alliance gains the more the BJP government will misuse agencies against our leaders," he charged. It has done the same in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and West Bengal. In fact last week, it was done in Jharkand and in Chhattisgarh, he noted.

He said every section of our society — farmers, youth, women, the marginalised, middle class, public intellectuals, NGOs and even journalists — have been at the receiving end of the BJP's "authoritarian misrule". The 140 crore Indians are looking towards us with hope to relieve them of their miseries, he said.

"The communal poison that the BJP and RSS have spread over the last nine years is now seen in hate crimes against innocent train passengers and school children," he said.

"It is no surprise that when people involved in gruesome rape are released and felicitated in one part of the county, it encourages horrific crimes and parading of naked women in the other. In Modi ji's India the wife of a Kargil brave heart is also not spared.It is the BJP govt's apathy towards the marginalised that makes their leaders urinate on poor tribals and Dalits and the culprits are left to roam freely," he said. The Congress chief said the Central government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to keep states under check and charged that MNREGA dues to Opposition ruled states are not being given. Special grants and state specific grants are not released as per recommendation of the Finance Commission, he alleged, adding that investors are forced to move their investments and projects out of opposition ruled states to states ruled by the BJP.

Raising the Adani issue, he said Rahul Gandhi held a press conference here and questioned PM Modi's silence on alleged stock manipulation by the business group and demanded a JPC probe into charges of round tripping and reports of Opaque Investment from a Mauritius-based company.

"It is unexplainable why the prime minister is not getting the matter investigated," he questioned.

He claimed that the BJP wants "complete control" on agencies and institutions and is adamant on controlling the appointment of the ED chief, the CBI director, Election Commissioners or even judges of courts across the country. "Through the course of the three meetings INDIA alliance has successfully held the government accountable both within and outside Parliament as a united front. Our strength makes the government nervous," Kharge said.

He said that is why it has further bulldozed important bills in Parliament, suspended our MPs on flimsy grounds, filed privilege motions against us, switched off our mikes, not allowed cameras to cover our protests and blatantly censored our speeches on Sansad TV. Kharge ended his speech on a positive note, saying, "The people of this country are our hope." The Congress chief also lauded the success of Chandrayaan 3 besides heaping praise on track and field athlete Neeraj Chopra and young chess wizard Pragnananda. "I want to congratulate all of them on their success for inspiring the next generation," he said.

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