Modi alleges Pak interference in Guj polls, slams Cong
GUJ RALLY Congress hits back, says PM relying on rumours PALANPUR (GUJARAT)/NEW DELHI: RAIPUR:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi played the Pakistan card during his Gujarat campaign on Sunday, alleging that the hostile neighbour was meddling in the elections to the state assembly, and questioning some senior Congress leaders’ recent meeting with Pakistan officials, including the country’s high commissioner to India.
The Congress was quick to deny the charges and asked Modi’s government to repatriate Pakistan’s top diplomat in the country if he was indeed meddling in an Indian election.
Addressing a rally in northern Gujarat’s Palanpur, Modi referred to a Facebook post by former director general of the Pakistan army Sardar Arshad Rafiq, saying that senior
The CRPF constable, who allegedly killed four troopers at the force’s Basaguda camp in Chhattisgarh, opened fire to slay a platoon commander against whom he held a grudge, a preliminary probe revealed. A senior officer told HT Santh Kumar was angry with the commander as he had complained against him. Congress leader Ahmed Patel should be the next Gujarat chief minister.
The post was covered by a section of the Indian media.
Minutes later, Patel, Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary, hit out at Modi. “It’s a foregone conclusion that he has abdicated the politics of development in both action and words. But does it befit the stature of the Prime Minister to rely on canards, rumours & lies just for an election? This is very sad,” Patel tweeted.
The BJP has governed Gujarat for 22 years. The Congress is hoping to unset the BJP by tapping angst over the agrarian crisis and the implementation of the goods and services tax, and on the strength of a coalition it has built with Patidars, some other backward classes, and Dalits.
Pakistan is our enemy. You (Congress) meet them and the next day call me ‘neech’... Isn’t this a thing to worry about? Does it not raise doubts? NARENDRA MODI, Prime Minister