New Delhi: Attacking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has alleged that south India received step-motherly treatment under the Modi government.

In an interview to news agency PTI, the Tharoor claimed that south India will side with the Congress in the Lok Sabha election 2019. He justified Congress president Rahul Gandhi's decision to contest from Wayanad saying that it sent a message that the concerns of south India will not be ignored under a Congress dispensation.

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Thiruvananthapuram MP also added that if the Congress party emerges as a majority seat-bagger, then Rahul Gandhi will be the Prime Minister of the India and added that Gandhi has 'all the right qualities to make an excellent Prime Minister.  Tharoor told PTI, "I think the south will definitely play an instrumental role in deciding the political fate of the country, particularly in the context of voting out the present ruling dispensation, under whose tenure, the south has an understandable case of step-motherly treatment under the Centre.”

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Tharoor also added, "This is partly on account of cultural factors such as the beef ban and the drive to impose Hindi as a national language, but also because of larger issues such as the uproar regarding the terms of reference of the 15th Finance Commission which has implications on the financial and political security of the southern states.”