KOLHAPUR: Criticizing the Congress party he leads, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the party’s self-imposed aims were to stoke anti-Indian tendencies and hate politics, even as he asserted that the BJP-led NDA was 2-0 ahead. After the first two phases of Lok Sabha polls.
“Kolhapur is called the football hub of Maharashtra. Football is very popular among the local youth here. Let me speak in football terms,” Modi said while addressing a rally of Governor Maha Uti in this ancient city on Saturday evening.
“…After the completion of the second phase of polling across India, the BJP-led NDA is ahead by 2-0,” he said amid thunderous applause and cheers.
“However, on the other hand, the Congress party and the opposition alliance in India have set two goals: anti-nationalism and propagation of hate politics,” Modi said even as he attacked the phrase “Congress K Shehzad” in reference to Rahul Gandhi. Saying that he was pursuing a policy of appeasement.
“Unable to match the record of the National Democratic Alliance, India is simply indulging in politics of appeasement…due to politics of appeasement opposing decisions like abrogation of Article 370 and implementation of the CAA,” he said.
Criticizing the opposition bloc, he said, “Parties and alliances committed to the formula of ‘one general prime minister’ can never form governments.”
In a sharp dig at the need for what he described as the opposition’s “divisive agenda”, Modi said: “India’s opposition alliance aims to sharpen and divide India into ‘North and South’… People from the land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj always relish their division.” directione.”
“They even boycotted Shri Ram Lalla’s ‘Pran-Pratishtha’… The DMK has equated ‘Sanatana’ with dengue and malaria…. India’s alliance is so deep in appeasement politics that they are celebrating Aurangzeb in the land of the great Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.” He said.
(Published 27 April 2024, at 14:18 he)