PM Modi attacks Congress for ‘toying’ with national security

baripada (Odisha) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a sharp attack on Congress leaders Rahul and Sonia Gandhi on Saturday saying law will not spare anyone who “toyed” with national security between 2004 and 2014 and suggested links between them and the arrested British national Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the Rs36 billion AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case.

Addressing a public rally here, he said the “society of thieves” was ganging up to remove the country’s who was out to expose and catch them.

Without taking the names of the either the party or its leaders, Modi said the Congress conspired to weaken the country’s defence forces when it was in power between 2004 and 2014. He also congratulated “India’s first woman Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for exposing those who misled the nation and played with the nation’s security for their own entertainment.

“Between 2004 and 2014, they

conspired to weaken the country’s defence forces. The nation is now understanding that. And when our government is bringing the defence forces of the country out of their web of conspiracy, they are feeling pricked,” he said. Modi said the truth was hurting the Congress and its leadership because they were being exposed.

“One letter of the middleman of helicopter scam and the ‘raazdar’ (holder) of Congress’ secrets Christian Michel — who has been extradited — has exposed that he had deep friendship with top Congress leaders. He was well aware of every file movement (on chopper deal) in the Prime Minister’s office.

“Possibly, the middlemen knew more than even the prime minister at that time,” he said.

“I fail to understand if the Congress ran the government or Michel ‘mama’s darbar’ (uncle’s court). I want to clearly state today that investigation will take place against all those who worked for the interest of the middlemen instead of national interest,” he added.

Modi said his government was taking strong decisions for the nation’s security. “I assure you that those who did injustice to the nation’s defence forces will be brought to justice. I assure you that law won’t spare anyone.” —