Dynasts are sleepless after first phase: Modi
Says only BJP govt. has the antidote for rioters, mafias
Kannauj (UP), Feb. 12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took a swipe at Opposition parties, saying after the first round of voting in Uttar Pradesh their dynasts are sleepless and unable to dream anymore.
Addressing a rally in Kannauj, he said for such leaders the ‘mantra’ of democracy is “government of the family, by the family and for the family”.
Modi said the people of the state have realised that only the BJP government has the antidote for rioters and mafias.
Kannauj, Farrukhabad and Auraiya for which Modi was addressing the rally would go to polls in the third phase on February 20.
Modi on Saturday also appealed to the people in Uttarakhand not to let the Congress’ “agenda of appeasement” succeed when the state goes to polls on February 14.
Addressing a rally in poll-bound Uttarakhand at Rudrapur on the last day of campaigning in the state, he asked voters to see these elections as an opportunity to wipe out the Congress which, he said, has already been rejected in a majority of states in the country.
Terming Congress’ plans to establish a Muslim university in Devbhoomi a part of its agenda of appeasement, he asked people if they will tolerate this insult to the land of gods.
He said the Congress has no understanding of the country’s cultural legacy and is disrespectful towards the armed forces.
Reiterating the charge that the Congress had even called Uttarakhand’s pride and the country’s first CDS Gen Bipin Rawat a “streetside hooligan”, the prime minister called upon the people to avenge this insult in the coming polls. Modi said the Congress does not even look upon this country as one “unified nation”.
“If India was not a unified one nation, the brave sons of Uttarakhand hills would not have been found guarding the country’s maritime boundaries at the Kerala coast,” he said.
Describing the Covid pandemic as the worst crisis in 100 years to hit mankind, he said the BJP government carried out development works undeterred and served the poor and needy wholeheartedly.
“People in Uttarakhand have realised that succour to the poor during the crisis like free rations under the PM Garib Kalyan Yojana would not have reached them as smoothly as it did if any other party was in power,” Modi said.
“We did not let a single poor person go to sleep on an empty stomach during the pandemic,” he said.
The BJP is leaving no stone unturned for the development of Uttarakhand, he said and cited the big road, rail, air and ropeway connectivity projects underway in the state.
Accusing the Congress of spreading rumours about the anti-Covid vaccines, he said the party did it for politics because it thought if things got back on track it will not have anything to speak against the government.
Earlier the rally was addressed by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.
TERMING CONGRESS’ plans to establish a Muslim university in Devbhoomi a part of its agenda of appeasement, Modi asked people if they will tolerate this insult to the land of gods.