At Maharashtra rally, PM Modi accuses Cong. of conspiring to erase Hindu faith
Launching a broadside against the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Opposition party of hatching a conspiracy to erase Hindu faith from the country.
Addressing a campaign rally in the tribal-dominated Nandurbar Lok Sabha constituency, the PM lashed out at the Congress, dubbing it “anti-Hindu” while claiming the party was spreading lies against the ruling BJP by alleging that the saron party would change the Constitution and do away with reservation.
Taking shots at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Sam Pitroda, the overseas Congress leader who quit because of his controversial remarks, Mr. Modi said, “The agenda of the Congress party is so dangerous that the shehzada’s [mockingly alluding to Mr. Gandhi as a princeling] guru in America [Mr. Pitroda] has disclosed that the construction of Ram Mandir and the celebration of the Ram Navami festival is against the idea of India. They even say that going to temples is anti-Indian. Look at the Congress’ mentality, calling the Ram temple ‘anti-national’ in Lord Ram’s country. The Congress is hatching a conspiracy to erase Hindu faith from this country.”
Mr. Modi further said that the Congress was aware that it could not compete with him on the plank of development.
“Hence, they have opened a factory of lies. Sometimes they lie about the BJP scrapping reservation, sometimes they accuse us of trying to subvert the Constitution. They keep spreading these lies through an ecosystem,”
Mr. Modi said.
He accused the Congress party of attempting to divide India along religious lines while reiterating that it planned to snatch the reservation of the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes, and the OBCs and give it to the Muslims.
In response to the PM’s claims at Nandurbar, the Congress demanded to know why the Modi government had delayed conducting the census by three years when it ought to have been conducted in 2021.
Why no census: Cong. “The PM’s claims in Nandurbar raises several questions. Why did you delay the census by three years? Why did you stop Dalit and tribal communities from getting information about their population?,” asked Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh.