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Addressing his first rally of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in the capital, Modi alleged that the INDI Alliance is playing appeasement politics and is steeped in corruption.
“Congress is playing a dangerous game. Its manifesto says they want to give government tenders also on basis of religion. Even the selection of beneficiaries will be on religious lines. When the CAA came into force, the protesters kept Delhi under siege for months… First the roads were blocked and then riots were engineered (referring to the 2020 riots)… The refugees who had come to India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are getting citizenship. They are Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis. Most of them are Dalits,” Modi said. He also named some women beneficiaries.
The prime minister also charged that the Sonia Gandhi-led “remote controlled” government had identified 123 properties belonging to Hindus and located in important places in the national capital and said these were handed over to the Wakf Board for vote bank politics.
Targeting the AAP government in Delhi, Modi said the party came into being on the plank of removing corruption but now “its leaders are taking rounds of jails”.
Modi also addressed BJP election rallies in Ambala and Sonepat in Haryana earlier in the day. He alleged that Congress is acting as the spokesperson of Pakistan and cautioning India against taking on the neighbouring country as it has the atom bomb. At BJP election rallies in Ambala and Sonepat in Haryana, he said Congress antics are driven by appeasement politics and “vote jihad”.
At the rally in Sonepat, Modi claimed the firing at the Indo-Pakistan border which had become a norm has stopped as he has given a free-hand to the young men of Haryana who are posted there.
“The INDI Alliance is not able to accept this. Its leaders are acting as spokespersons of Pakistan and saying, ‘be quiet’ and ‘be afraid’ as it has the atom bomb. The spokespersons of Pakistan are showing me those eyes. That means they have not understood Modi. Should India be scared of Pakistan. We enter their homes and hit them. Congress manifesto is like that of Muslim League,” Modi said.
He alleged that if voted to power, Congress intends to take away half of the inherited property, referring to remarks made by Congress leader Sam Pitroda.
“Congress says it has done an X-ray of your property and will give away half of your inherited wealth under its agenda of vote Jihad,” Modi said, adding that Congress has already begun the exercise of randomly declaring Muslims in Karnataka as OBCs and giving them a share of the reservation and sops meant for SC, ST, OBCs.
He also alleged that Congress regimes have been soft towards Pakistan for appeasement politics.
“Their leaders are saying that the Article 370 that we have abrogated will be undone. They will implement it again in Jammu and Kashmir. I want to say from the brave land of Haryana that if there is any flag flying in Jammu and Kashmir, it will be the tricolor. This is Modi so forget dreaming about bringing back Article 370. If you try, you will have to pay dearly,” he said.
Voting for INDIA will result in political instability, the prime minister insisted.
“INDI Alliance plans to have five prime ministers in five years. What will five prime ministers do?.... Will you allow this instability to come,” he said.
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