New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhihas launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister NarendraModiby asking him to stop giving speeches on the past and start working as he did not have much time before completing his term.

"You will have to tell the country during the elections what you did in the last five years. It is going to be five years and you have not even opened your account," he told Modi, making him the focal point of his attack in a series of roadside and public meetings. 

On the second day of his ongoing "JanashirvadaYatra" in northern parts of the poll-bound Karnataka, he said Modi was delving into the past to attack the Congress rather than accounting for his own performance.

Rahul said, "BJP failed to create jobs, bring back black money and brought down the economy. All that Modi talks about is Congress is this, Congress is that."

He said the country had made Modi Prime Minister to provide employment to youth, to help farmers, to establish schools and hospitals and not to talk about Congress party.

"Modiji stop giving speeches and start working, because you don't have much time.

Invoking the pithy saying "Work is worship for Karnataka's 12th century social reformer and philosopher Basavanna", Rahul said, "Modiji, you keep taking Basavanna's name, but you don't work. You keep talking, but you don't work. Even if you talk, you only talk about the past." Claiming that the Congress "does what it says", Gandhi said his party always worked for the future, while Modi drove the vehicle looking at the rearview mirror.

"That's the reason your vehicle falls into ditch or faces accident... You only keep thinking about the past and then do something like demonetisation which created loss for crores of people and implement GST 'Gabbar Singh Tax'," he charged.

He also claimed that the Modi government was "slowly" waiving the loans of businessmen who had debt of around Rs 10 lakh crore, but refused to write off farmers' debt.