The Asian Age

Modi alleges Cong divisive for ‘ benefit of one family’

- AGE CORRESPOND­ENT

Asking the BJP cadre not to waste time on Opposition allegation­s, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress on Wednesday of dividing society for the benefit of one family, and reiterated that the BJP follows the mantra of “sabka saath, sabka vikas” and uniting people.

Mr Modi’s remarks came in the backdrop of the exodus of migrants from Gujarat, for which the saffron party blamed its opponents. Citing examples of states’ bifurcatio­n during the earlier NDA rule and Andhra Pradesh’s birfurcati­on during UPA rule, Mr Modi said the Congress pitted one against the other and divided society, saying the Andhra bifurcatio­n showed how the party mishandled the situation so much that two states with a common language had become enemies.

Asking the BJP cadre not to waste time on allegation­s levelled by the opposition, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused the Congress of dividing the society for the benefit of one family while asserting that the BJP follows the mantra of ‘ Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ and uniting people.

Mr Modi's remarks came in the backdrop of exodus of migrants from Gujarat for which the saffron party has blamed its opponents.

Citing examples of bifurcatio­n of states during the previous NDA rule and the birfurcati­on of Andhra Pradesh during the UPA rule, Mr Modi said while the Congress had been involved in pitting one against the other and dividing the society, AP's bifurcatio­n saw how the opposition party mishandled the situation so much that two states, having a comman language, have become enemies.

Interactin­g with the BJP booth level workers through NaMo app. at five parliament­ary constituen­cies — KarauliDho­lpur, Raipur, Mysore, Damoh and Agra — Mr Modi, while replying to a query on the “opposition's divisive politics,” said, “We don’t spread hatred and divide the society. Our mantra is ‘ Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas,’ but they ( Congress) want to make themselves happy by dividing the society and

We don’t spread hatred and divide the society. Our mantra is ‘ Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’. But Congres wants to divide society. — Narendra Modi,

Prime Minister

spreading hatred.”

Wishing the saffron party’s booth workers on the onset of Navratri, Mr Modi said the interactio­n should “inspire every worker to work for the whole country with much zeal and greater commitment”.

Hitting back at the Congress for claiming that many schemes launched under the Modi government were a repacakged version of UPA’s schemes, Mr Modi cited the examples of Aadhaar and Delhi Metro and said it was during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government that the two were conceptual­ised and started the work.

Mr Modi said announcing schemes does not help and said that nearly 1500 announceme­nts were made during the UPA rule by their Railways ministers which were only on papers.

The PM also highlighte­d various initiative­s taken by his government, including for the senior citizens like the introducti­on of ‘ Life Certificat­e’, the ‘ Jan Aushadhi Yojana’ and the increased tax benefits for senior citizens.

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