Cong will go extinct like dinosaur, resembles ‘Big Boss’ house: Rajnath

DEFENCE MINISTER Rajnath Singh claimed Friday the Congress will become extinct like the dinosaur in a few years from now and likened the infighting in the opposition party to television reality show "Bigg Boss".

“The exodus of leaders from the Congress continues. They are quitting the party and joining the BJP,” Singhsai data rally in G au ch ari nut tarakh and’ sp auriga rhw al district .“I am afraid that in a few years from now, the congress will become extinct like the dinosaur.in a few years after 2024, if we take the name of the congress, children will ask who?” he said.

On alleged infighting in Congress, he said, “They are fighting with each other daily. The party has become somewhat like the house of‘ biggboss’ .t hey are tearing each other’ s clothes ,” Singh said, who was campaigning for BJP Garhwal candidate Anil Baluni. India has emerged as a strong country under PM Narendra Modi's leadership, he said, and claimed Russia-ukraine war was suspended for over 4 hours following Modi’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Put in, Ukrainian President Vol ody myrze lens kyy and us president Joe Bid en to evacuate 22,500 Indian students

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Uttarakhand’s Kashipur, Friday. ANI stranded in Ukraine.

“Earlier, we used to export defence equipment worth only Rs 600 crore. Over only seven years, we are exporting defence equipment worth more than Rs 21,000 crore. India is not an ordinary country now,” he said.

Bjp implements its manifest os verbatim, he said. “We said we would abrogate( the provisions of) Article 370 in J&K, we did it. We said we would bring the CAA, we did it. We had been saying since 1984 that we would build a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya and we did that too,” he said.

At a rally in Lohaghat in support of BJP candidate from the Almora (reserved) seat

Ajay Tamta, Singh said during the days of Congress governments, border villages were called india’ s last villages but Modi called them first villages. congress governments did not do infrastructure development in border areas as they were afraid of pakistan and China, Singh alleged. “We also want good relations with our neighbours but we should also be capable of retaliating if nudged or provoked by anyone,” he said.