NEW DELHI: Raking up the
Godhra train arson
, Prime Minister
Modi
on Saturday accused RJD president Lalu Prasad of having tried to ‘save’ those responsible for burning alive more than 60 kar sevaks ‘during UPA rule.’
Addressing a rally in Bihar’s Darbhanga, PM Modi recalled the incident that took place while he was the chief minister of Gujarat, claiming that the
opposition parties
always practice politics of ‘appeasement’.
‘It is because of this appeasement politics that the father of Bihar’s ‘shehzada’ had tried to save those who were responsible for the Godhra train burning incident’, said PM Modi.
‘After all, it was the rule of Sonia madam’, he added referring to the UPA chairperson who was also the president of the ruling Congress.
Continuing his onslaught on the issue of reservations , Modi accused the opposition of ‘trying to rob’ SCs, STs and tribals of reservations because of the ‘disillusionment’ these deprived sections felt towards the INDIA bloc.
‘The INDIA bloc is trying to divert reservations to Muslims. They are going against the views of Babasaheb Ambedkar and first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, neither of whom was in favour of reservations on religious lines’, Modi claimed.
He also hit out at Tejashwi Yadav for bringing up the ‘Hindu Muslim narrative’ at rallies while talking about ‘Agnipath scheme’ and said ‘when we talk about the martyrdom of Captain Hameed, do we think of him as a Muslim?’
‘There is a shehzada in Delhi and one in Patna, both of whom think of the country as their fiefdom (jaagir), he said in a veiled dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav.
‘Their mindset was exposed when they raised questions about the surgical strikes and spoke ill of the armed forces’, PM Modi said.
( with input from agencies)
