“You are happy to hug Chinese ambassador, you are clapping for the release of Hafiz Saeed, and you cannot respect Indian Army’s surgical strike. But why did you speak up about it? You could have just remained silent,” said by PM Modi.
Rahul Gandhi had tweeted: “Narendrabhai, baat nahi bani. Terror mastermind is free. President Trump just delinked Pak military funding from LeT Diplomacy fails. More hugs urgently needed”, After the release of LeT founder and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Saeed by a Pakistan court.
Gandhi’s tweet was aimed at the bonhomie between Modi and Trump, whose hugs at public events have come to define new warmth between the two leaders.
‘Didn’t sell the nation’
“The Congress dislikes me because of my poor origin. Can a party stoop so low? Yes, a person belonging to a poor family has become the prime minister. They do not fail to hide their contempt for this fact. Yes, I sold tea but I did not sell the nation.” said by PM, later in the day.
The Prime Minister also said the Congress, which is making all-out efforts to dislodge the long-ruling BJP in Gujarat, never accepted any Gujarati leader and had defamed the state.
“It was with the support of the Jan Sangh that a person from the Patel community, Babubhai Patel, became the chief minister. The Congress did not like this and ensured that Babubhai Jashbhai’s government did not last. When Keshubhai Patel, a son of Saurashtra, became the chief minister, the Congress tried everything to dislodge him. They repeated the same disruptive tactic with Anandiben Patel, a daughter of the Patel community. The Congress has defamed Gujarat always,” he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
‘Development vs dynasty’
The election in his home state was a contest between trust on the development and dynastic politics said by PM while addressing the Bhuj rally.
“Recently Pakistani court released a terrorist, I cannot understand why these Congresspeople are clapping here,” Modi said in the speech delivered in Gujarati.
“This Gujarat son has no black mark in his public life. You come to the state and level baseless allegations on the son of the soil… the people of the state will not forgive you,” he said, alluding to allegations by Congress leaders, including Gandhi.
During his campaign in the state in the last few days, Gandhi had trained his guns at the Modi-led government over the Rafale fighter aircraft deal.
Turing the tables, Modi asked, “When our soldiers… were standing eye-to-eye against the Chinese soldiers for over 70 days, at that time you were hugging the Chinese ambassador here…
“For whose benefit did you do this? I am asking you,” Modi said, without pointing any name.
Surgical strike
He referred to the Mumbai 26/11 terror strike and the attack in Uri and asked what was the difference between one government and another, one leader and other.
The meaning of living and dying for the country can be known by the response, Modi said.
“They killed our soldiers in Uri; our soldiers went inside their territory, conducted a surgical strike and came back. The next day a newspaper said they (in Pakistan) carried bodies in trucks,” he said.
Modi alleged that the Congress raised questions on the surgical strike in September 2016.
“They could not respect Indian Army; they asked questions like none of our soldiers were injured? None of them died? Have you any photo or video evidence? Had they gone to shoot a movie in Pakistan?” he said.
“When you go to the house of the poor and eat rotis, you ensure that you are filmed, but does that mean that a surgical strike should be filmed?” the prime minister asked.
Modi will address a series of campaign meetings on Monday and on Wednesday in Saurashtra and South Gujarat, which go to polls on December 9. The second phase of the elections will be held on December 14.
The results for the 182-seat assembly will be announced on December 18.
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