Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally at Sonebhadra in Uttar Pardesh on May 11, 2019.
Prime Minister continues to attack the Congress over Sam Pitroda’s “hua to hua” remark on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 11 came down heavily on the Opposition alliance in Uttar Pradesh for raising questions on his caste, asserting that he belongs to the caste of all poor countrymen.
Addressing an election rally at Sonebhadra in Uttar Pardesh, Mr. Modi continued to attack the Congress over its leader Sam Pitroda’s hua to hua remark on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
National security also figured prominently in Mr. Modi’s speech.
He accused a previous coalition government of weakening the intelligence agencies and recalled that the Pokhran nuclear tests took place on this day 21 years back.
“They have destroyed Uttar Pradesh and now the SP and the BJP have come together to save themselves from destruction,” he said, calling the alliance mahamilavati (adulterated). “They have started a new thing about my caste,” he said, in an apparent reference to Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati’s jibe that he is a farzi backward — a fake OBC leader.
“I want to tell them that Modi belongs to just one caste — whatever caste the poor belong to, I belong to that caste,” he said, listing the schemes that his government has launched for them.
He claimed that the country’s intelligence agencies suffered when a third front government, which included the Samajwadi Party, was in power at the Centre. “Our intelligence agencies were weakened by an earlier mahamilavatigovernment, but the (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee government set that right,” he said.
“Many people connected with our security and intelligence agencies have written a lot about this. They have written how they had made the intelligence network hollow and the country had to bear its consequences for long,” he said. “What the third front government did is in no way less than a crime.”
“Whenever there is a mahamilavati government in the country, it has threatened national security,” Mr. Modi said.
The Prime Minister hailed scientists for the successful Pokhran nuclear tests this day in 1998. “Twenty-one years back this day, India successfully carried out nuclear tests, Operation Shakti. I salute the scientists who brought laurels to the country with their hard work. This historic event in 1998 proves what strong political will can do for national security,” he said.
Referring to Manmohan Singh’s term as Prime Minister, Mr. Modi claimed the country got a weak government run by remote control after the one headed by Vajpayee. He said that government brought a bad name to the country.
“So many scams took place but the Congress and its people had no remorse as their way of thinking is hua to hua,” Mr. Modi said making a fresh attack on the Congress for its leader Sam Pitroda’s remarks. “It shows the character and mentality of the party,” he said addiung that the “remark reflects the arrogance of the Congress”.
Mr. Modi cited the Balakot air strikes against Pakistan as an example of what a bold government can accomplish. “This is the new India. Now India barges into the hideouts of terrorists and kills them,” he added.
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