Why Modi’s reference to Congress high command strikes a chord February 26, 2021, 10:45 AM IST Lakshmi Iyer is a journalist worked with Mumbai Mirror, who has been covering politics for three decades in Delhi & Mumbai. No one in the Congress will perhaps dispute what Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at his first public rally in Puducherry on February 25 after the fall of the Congress government. The main reason for the collapse of the Congress in the Union Territory, Modi pointed out was that it did not get a “people’s government”– a government that it had voted for in the 2016 assembly elections.” People got a government that was busy serving the Congress high command in Delhi, their priorities were different. Your former CM was an expert in lifting the slippers of his top party leaders, ” he declared, recalling an old incident involving outgoing Chief Minister V Narayanswamy offering his slippers to Rahul Gandhi.