Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday assailed the Congress for stalling his reply to the debate on the President’s address in the Lok Sabha and said the Opposition had insulted the President and the Constitution.The PM attacked the Congress and its erstwhile governments for what he called a range of “ills”, including “creating an atmosphere where the world didn’t want to deal with India, perpetuating a culture of policy inflexibility through the Planning Commission, making promises like Gareebi hatao (eradicate poverty) but not keeping these, seeing citizens as problems and now raising Modi teri kabr khudegi slogans as a last resort”.“The Congress will never be able to dig my grave. I have the blessings of mothers and sisters. They are my armour. The Congress government was run on remote but my remote are 140 crore Indians,” Modi said. He said India was ready to compete with the world and was hailing the nine free trade agreements (FTAs) his government concluded in the past four years. The PM said the India-EU FTA offered stability to the world and the India-US trade deal would add pace to global stability. “This (India-US deal) is a good omen for the world and its biggest beneficiaries will be the youth,” he said amid an Opposition walkout even as he asked the Congress why no country wanted to deal with India when it was in power.Modi, while accusing the Congress-led UPA of saddling banks with NPAs and treating PSUs as liabilities, said his government had turned both around and the sectors were posting profits and boosting microfinance for the poor and women. “The Congress only knows how to raise slogans, not how to implement these. It remained engaged with vote bank politics and never prioritised national development. An analysis of Independence Day speeches the PMs of Congress governments made will reveal lack of vision and conviction,” Modi said, recalling late PM Indira Gandhi’s quote where she spoke of her father Jawaharlal Nehru answering “35 crore population” when asked what his problems were and said her problem was a “57 crore population”.“Insulting the people of India is in Congress culture. They see people as problems whereas we see 140 crore Indians as 140 crore solutions. That’s the difference,” Modi said, slamming the Congress-led disruptions of the President’s address debate in the Lok Sabha as an insult to the President and the Constitution.“They have no right to utter the word Constitution. When a woman who has risen from poverty, who comes from a tribal family, is treated this way, it is not just her insult, but of all tribals and the Constitution,” the PM said, terming the LS episode as “extremely painful”. He also accused the Congress of insulting the Northeast (Assam MP Dilip Saikia was presiding when the LS was disrupted) and SCs (Krishna Prasad Tenneti, a Dalit MP from Andhra was presiding too).The PM hit out at the Congress, particularly for the “Modi teri kabr khudegi” slogan and said the Opposition wished him death as it was left with no other option following successive electoral defeats.“‘Modi teri kabr khudegi’ is not a simple slogan, but a marker of their hate. They are raising this because we abrogated Article 370, brought peace to the Northeast, killed Pakistani terrorists in their backyard, are working to end Maoist terror and put the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance to correct the injustice Nehru had done by signing it,” Modi said, adding that the Congress’ problem was why he had reached the PMO and why he was staying on. “They (Congress) treat the PM’s post as ancestral property,” said the PM.In a veiled attack on the Gandhis, the PM said, “Stealing is their hereditary occupation. They even stole Mahatma Gandhi’s surname.” Earlier, he said while today’s deals were mentioned with pride, past deals meant “Bofors”.