AZAMGARH/JAUNPUR: PM Narendra Modi accused Congress on Thursday of using secularism as a smokescreen to practice communal politics until he exposed the party’s divisive agenda, while also asserting that the ongoing Lok Sabha elections are a contest between “santushtikaran” (ensuring satisfaction of people) and “tushtikaran” (appeasement).
“For tushtikaran of their vote bank, Congress and Samajwadi Party are trying to change the Constitution and give quota of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and OBCs to Muslims like they have already done in Karnataka.They want to apply the Karnataka model of giving quota on a communal basis across the country, which Modi will never allow,” he said at an election rally in Azamgarh, UP.
The PM followed it up at another rally in Jaunpur, accusing Congress of communal and appeasement politics. “You’re a hypocrite and communalist who kept the country burning in the flames of communalism for 70 years. For seven decades, Congress kept playing the Hindu-Muslim card for tushtikaran and kept Dalits and OBCs in kutcha houses without LPG, power, and tap water, and defecate in the open apart from making them struggle to get health facilities,” Modi said.
Criticising INDIA bloc’s anti-CAA stand, Modi said: “Most refugees, who became compelled to leave their homes to save their daughters and religion by reaching India to seek shelter, are Dalits and OBCs. Congress harassed them by compelling them to live like orphans. Congress kept enjoying power by exploiting Mahatma Gandhi’s name, but it never fulfilled his promise to welcome minorities seeking refuge in India.”
“But it is the guarantee of Modi that you can’t end CAA,” he said, emphasising that “SP and Congress both spread lies about CAA and tried to push the country towards riots but it’s Modi who unmasked them. Desh-videsh kahin se bhi, jo bhi taakat ikatthi karni hai kar lo (gather all strength and your well-wishers from the country and abroad) but keep it in mind that you can’t end CAA. First set of citizenship to 14 people had already been given under CAA yesterday.”
PM Modi also dismissed any claims about restoring Article 370, saying today J&K celebrates the festival of democracy.
He accused SP-Congress alliance of planning to replicate Mamata Banerjee’s TMC-style politics in UP, calling it a “zehrila teer” (poisonous arrow) of tushtikaran.
“For tushtikaran of their vote bank, Congress and Samajwadi Party are trying to change the Constitution and give quota of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, and OBCs to Muslims like they have already done in Karnataka.They want to apply the Karnataka model of giving quota on a communal basis across the country, which Modi will never allow,” he said at an election rally in Azamgarh, UP.
The PM followed it up at another rally in Jaunpur, accusing Congress of communal and appeasement politics. “You’re a hypocrite and communalist who kept the country burning in the flames of communalism for 70 years. For seven decades, Congress kept playing the Hindu-Muslim card for tushtikaran and kept Dalits and OBCs in kutcha houses without LPG, power, and tap water, and defecate in the open apart from making them struggle to get health facilities,” Modi said.
Criticising INDIA bloc’s anti-CAA stand, Modi said: “Most refugees, who became compelled to leave their homes to save their daughters and religion by reaching India to seek shelter, are Dalits and OBCs. Congress harassed them by compelling them to live like orphans. Congress kept enjoying power by exploiting Mahatma Gandhi’s name, but it never fulfilled his promise to welcome minorities seeking refuge in India.”
“But it is the guarantee of Modi that you can’t end CAA,” he said, emphasising that “SP and Congress both spread lies about CAA and tried to push the country towards riots but it’s Modi who unmasked them. Desh-videsh kahin se bhi, jo bhi taakat ikatthi karni hai kar lo (gather all strength and your well-wishers from the country and abroad) but keep it in mind that you can’t end CAA. First set of citizenship to 14 people had already been given under CAA yesterday.”
PM Modi also dismissed any claims about restoring Article 370, saying today J&K celebrates the festival of democracy.
He accused SP-Congress alliance of planning to replicate Mamata Banerjee’s TMC-style politics in UP, calling it a “zehrila teer” (poisonous arrow) of tushtikaran.
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