ANAND/RAJKOT:
PM Modi
Thursday slammed an INDIA bloc constituent’s call for “vote jihad” as “an insult to democracy and Constitution”.
PM said he found the remark of Maria Alam, SP candidate and niece of
Congress
veteran Salman Khurshid, at a rally in UP all the more shocking as it came “from a person belonging to an educated Muslim family and not someone who studied in a madrassa”.
During his Gujarat campaign, PM also picked on a
Pakistan
ex-minister’s praise for
Rahul Gandhi
on X as a reflection of the neighbour’s “desperation to see the shehzada become the next PM so that India gets a weak govt”.
“Pakistan is weeping because Congress is dying here,” PM said of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Fawad Hussain Chaudhry sharing a video of the Wayanad MP & commenting, “Rahul on fire…”.
Congress aims to create rift between Ram & Shiva devotees: PM Modi says
We have heard about ‘love jihad’ and ‘land Jihad’ so far. This campaign for
vote jihad
is the latest. I presume you all know what the meaning of ‘jihad’ is,” PM told a gathering in Anand, Gujarat’s milk city. “Worse, not a single Congress functionary has condemned it yet.”
Modi also tore into Congress chief
Mallikarjun Kharge
for his allegedly disparaging remarks about Ram and Shiva devotees, accusing him of trying to create a rift among Hindus in pursuance of his party’s “appeasement” of Muslims.
At an
election rally
in Surendranagar, the PM said, “Congress chief Kharge has made a very dangerous statement with malafide intentions. They (Congress) aim to create differences among devotees of Ram and Shiva so that they fight with each other. Even the Mughals could not break our traditions dating back thousands of years, but now Congress wants to break it?”
Modi iterated that the Congress manifesto smacked of “Muslim League’s declarations”, carrying forward its intent to grant reservation based on religion to Muslims for three decades.
“Congress betrayed the Constitution…Its manifesto proposes a separate quota for minorities, especially Muslims, in the allocation of all govt tenders,” he said
“Govt contracts are not awarded based on caste or religion. But Congress wants to do that for its vote bank. Govt buys arms and ammunition for our Army from private players. So, are we going to give contracts to people from a specific religion or select qualified contractors?”
Declaring that nobody would be able to divide the country until he was alive, the PM announced the launch of a nationwide campaign to spread awareness about the Constitution after the vote count on June 4.
“I will expose this gang that wants to alter the Constitution. I will reach out to people living in every corner of the country. It’s time we teach a lesson to these people,” he said.
Modi addressed four rallies covering Anand in central Gujarat and several constituencies of Saurashtra, including Junagadh,
Jamnagar
and Surendranagar.
