MAHA BJP CHIEF DRAWS FLAK FOR CLAIMING MODI MADE KALAM PREZ

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Chandrakant Patil drew criticism from the ruling Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra after he said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made Dr APJ Abdul Kalam the president of India.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said Modi was not in national level politics then while the Congress criticised Patil saying next that he would give credit to Modi for how the universe came into being. Raut criticised Patil and the BJP saying they wanted credit for everything that has happened in the country.

Patil made the controversial claim while speaking to BJP’S Yuva Morcha held in Pune on Friday. He said that Modi never discriminated against Muslims and claimed that Modi made Kalam the president in 2002. Patil had said, “Narendra Modi has given a place to all Muslims. He had also made Abdul Kalam the president. He was not made the president because he was a Muslim, but because he was an accomplished scientist.”

Dr Kalam was elected as the President of India in 2002 during Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government, when Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat.

Raut dismissed the claim and said, “This was a masterstroke by Atal Bihari Vajpayee; and Pramod Mahajan too was involved in it. I only know that Modi was not in the national political scene then.”

State Congress secretary and spokesperson Sachin Sawant said, “Today, neither APJ Abdul Kalam nor Vajpayee are alive. Tomorrow Patil may even say that the universe came into being because of Modi.”