The Congress is making an attempt to divide the nation and create rifts between totally different castes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated on Friday as he slammed the Opposition in his first rally for the upcoming Maharashtra elections and urged the citizens to stay united.
Addressing an enormous crowd in Dhule in northwestern Maharashtra, Modi additionally alleged that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance was conspiring to scrap the state authorities’s Ladki Bahin scheme, beneath which underprivileged ladies are given ₹1,500 each month.
“The only agenda of the Congress is to make one caste struggle towards one other. They don’t want SCs, STs and OBCs to progress and get their due recognition… Bear in mind, Ek hain toh secure hain (We’re secure if we’re united),” Modi stated.
“Since Nehru’s time, Congress and his household opposed reservation and now their fourth era yuvraj (prince) is working for caste divisions,” Modi added forward of November 20 meeting elections within the state.
Modi additionally accused the Congress of encouraging Pakistan’s agenda and talking the language of separatists by pushing for the restoration of Article 370 of the Structure, which used to grant particular standing to Jammu & Kashmir earlier than it was scrapped in 2019.
“The Congress shouldn’t attempt to implement the Pakistan agenda in Kashmir. I’m dedicated to implement the structure in Kashmir. Nobody can reinstate Article 370 in Kashmir until I’m there. By abrogating Article 370, I carried out the structure of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar in Kashmir, which for 75 years had a distinct structure. This was my largest tribute to Babasaheb Ambedkar,” he stated.
His feedback come amid a simmering controversy over the J&Ok meeting passing a decision calling for the restoration of Article 370.
The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering leads the Mahayuti alliance, with the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP), and is hoping to retain energy in a high-stakes contest. The MVA, which contains the Congress, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and the NCP (Sharadchandraji Pawar), is aiming to duplicate its efficiency within the Lok Sabha elections, when it received 30 of the state’s 48 seats.
Two days after Chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi reiterated his pledge to conduct a caste census at rallies in Nagpur and Mumbai, Modi stated the Congress’s sole agenda was to pit one caste towards one other. He stated that the Congress couldn’t digest the progress of scheduled castes, tribes and different backward lessons.
“Rajiv Gandhi opposed OBC reservation. Now, they’re dividing the castes inside OBCs and numerous tribes in tribal communities. We have to preserve unity,” Modi stated.
Modi repeated the slogan at a second rally in Nashik, alleging that the Congress hates different backward lessons (OBCs) because it couldn’t type a authorities by itself after OBCs united within the Nineties. “Through the Congress rule, OBCs weren’t united. OBCs obtained reservation solely when the Congress was out of energy. As quickly because the OBCs have been united, the last word impact was Congress misplaced its easy majority within the nation. So, Congress hates OBCs and needs to divide them into Kunbis, Malis and others. Congress needs numerous castes in OBCs to struggle towards one another.”
The Prime Minister additionally lauded the Eknath Shinde-led Mahayuti authorities for implementing numerous welfare schemes for girls, such because the Ladki Bahin Yojana, and alleged the MVA was towards ladies’s empowerment.
“The BJP and Mahayuti authorities are dedicated to ladies’s empowerment, however the Congress-led MVA will scrap the Ladki Bahin scheme if they arrive to energy. Girls must be alert concerning the MVA, which doesn’t help ladies’s empowerment,” Modi stated.
He added that the Mahayuti authorities determined to recruit 25,000 ladies within the police drive and would guarantee ladies are secure.
Modi additional alleged that the MVA was anti-development and solely serious about looting Maharashtra. He accused the Opposition alliance of thwarting infrastructure initiatives such because the metro railway, the Vadhavan port, Atal Setu, and the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Expressway. “The Mahayuti authorities is working for the event of the state. If all these works cease, Maharashtra will lag behind in progress.”
The Prime Minister described the MVA as a automobile that had neither wheels nor brakes, including that there was a struggle to take a seat within the driver’s seat.
“They’re combating with one another for the put up of chief minister. Alternatively, chief minister Eknath Shinde led the federal government and reinstated the status of Maharashtra. BJP ani Mahayuti aahe tar gati aahe, Maharashtrachi hamkhas pragati aahe (If there may be BJP and Mahayuti, there may be speedy improvement and a assure of Maharashtra’s progress),” he stated.
Modi dared the Congress’s allies in Maharashtra to get Rahul Gandhi to reward Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar and Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. “A senior MVA chief has requested the Congress yuvraj (Rahul Gandhi) to cease disrespecting Savarkar as elections are happening right here. Those that contemplate Savarkar an icon are with the Congress,” he stated, whereas additionally calling the Congress a parjeevi (parasite) that was depending on different events to outlive.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole stated Modi’s speech was an try to unfold lies and mislead the folks. “On one hand, PM Modi stated that Congress is completed and alternatively he chanted Congress over 50 occasions. Modi’s love for the OBCs can also be faux.”
