By a staff reporter
Dehradun, 2 Apr: In the run up to the election, the slanging match between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi continues.
On Sunday, it was the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi, where Rahul Gandi roared against Prime Minister Modi claiming that, if BJP wins the elections, then the whole country would be on fire.
And, today, it was the turn of Modi to hit back at the “Congress Shahzada”, asking the people to finish the opposition completely. “Chun chun ke saaf kar do (wipe out the opposition),” said Modi addressing the ‘Vijay Shankhnad’ rally in Rudrapur in the run up to the election.
Accusing the opposition of protecting the corrupt, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that the attack on corruption would intensify in his third term after the elections.
The Prime Minister said, ‘There will be a stronger attack on corruption in the third term. I have come to give you this guarantee.” The election for all the five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand will be held on 19 April 19.
Indirectly referring to the opposition’s support to jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is embroiled in the alleged liquor scam, Modi said that, on the one hand, we stand before the public with honesty and transparency, on the other hand, there is a gathering of the corrupt. ‘These corrupt people are threatening me and abusing me day and night. See what game is going on. We say eliminate corruption and they are saying save the corrupt,” Modi asserted.
Taking aim at the opposition, he said that the prince of the royal family of the Congress, which is part of the INDI Alliance, has claimed that if the country elects the BJP government for the third time, it will be on fire. In this regard, he said that those who ruled the country for 60 years are now talking about setting the country on fire just because they are out of power for 10 years.
He asked the public whether they would not punish such people and selectively expel such people from the field.
Modi said that the Congress, which talked about emergency, has no faith in democracy and hence it is busy instigating people against the mandate. He alleged that Congress wants to take the country towards instability and anarchy.
Criticising the Congress, he said that instead of punishing one of its big leaders from Karnataka who had talked about separating South India from the country, it gave him a ticket in the elections.
Modi said that Congress is so immersed in the quagmire of appeasement that it can never think about the national interest. In this regard, while referring to CAA, he said that Congress encourages infiltrators but when BJP gives Indian citizenship to refugees who have faith in the country, it feels pain.
He said that most of the refugees who have come from Pakistan and Bangladesh are Dalit families but Congress is opposing giving them citizenship.
However, he said, ‘No matter how much Congress opposes it, these people have the guarantee of Modi.’
