‘400 paar’ gets a fresh twist, PM Modi says needed to stop Congress from ‘putting Babri lock on Ram Mandir’
Claiming that the Congress intends to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision on Ram Mandir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said he needs 400 seats so the party cannot succeed in its plan to put the “Babri lock” on the temple in Ayodhya or bring back Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
This is a departure from the PM’s earlier framing of the 400-seat mark – while he had not attributed a reason in the run up to the polls, after the first phase, he had said he needed to cross this figure so the Congress cannot steal the reservation of Dalits, tribals and OBCs.
Speaking in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone and Dhar districts, Modi countered the Congress allegations that the slogan of “400 paar” was aimed at abolishing the Constitution. “The Congress is spreading lies… Don’t they know that from 2019 to 2024… the NDA-plus alliance already had the support of around 400 seats… Modi needs 400 seats so the Congress cannot bring back Article 370 in Kashmir and create trouble. Modi needs 400 seats so the Congress cannot put the Babri lock on the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya,” he said in Dhar.
In Khargone, he said, “India is at a crucial juncture in history. You have to decide whether there will be ‘vote jihad’ in India or ‘Ram Rajya’.”
“In Pakistan, terrorists are threatening jihad against India, and here the Congress people have also declared to do ‘vote jihad’ against Modi, asking people of a particular religion to unite and vote against Modi. Think about the level to which the Congress has stooped due to disappointment and despair. Is ‘vote jihad’ acceptable to you? Can this be allowed in a democracy? Does the Constitution of India permit this kind of jihad?” he said.
To understand how “dangerous” the “Congress conspiracy” is, one needs to listen to leaders who have left the party, the PM said. “A woman said that when she went to the Ram Mandir, she was tortured so much that she had to leave the Congress. Another person said the Muslim League and Maoists have captured the Congress. A third person revealed a deeper conspiracy, saying that the shahzada of the Congress (a reference to Rahul Gandhi) intends to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision on the Ram Mandir, just like his father overturned the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Shah Bano case. A fourth person disclosed that for the last two years, people have been involved in a big conspiracy – Congress has decided to trap Modi in false accusations, spread rumours. That is why these days, lies are being spread about the Constitution, and that is why people are talking about setting the country on fire,” he said.
Attacking former Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi, who had drawn flak for terming the attack against the Indian Air Force convoy in J&K an “election stunt”, Modi said, “With each phase of voting, the love of Congress for Pakistan is reaching its peak. The statements of these people are astonishing. A former CM of Congress said that our Army carries out terrorist attacks, Pakistan is innocent. Isn’t this an insult to our Army?”
The PM Also attacked RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, saying that the leader who “was in jail for the fodder scam” has said that “Muslims should get reservation, and not just reservation, he says the entire reservation should go to Muslims”.
“Do you understand what this means? It means they want to snatch away all the reservation enjoyed by SC, ST and OBC communities and give the entire reservation to Muslims. But why are they doing this? Because this is the only vote bank they are surviving on, they have lost everything else, everyone has left them one by one,” the PM said.
“The Congress’s intention is to give priority to minorities in sports as well, meaning it will now decide on the basis of religion who will be in the cricket team. I ask the Congress today, if this was what they wanted, why did they divide Mother India into three pieces in 1947? They should have made the entire country into Pakistan in 1947 and erased the name and existence of India then and there. I am saying this loud and clear today, and all the Congress people and their stooges should listen carefully – as long as Modi is alive, he will not allow any attempt to erase India’s identity in the name of false secularism or so-called secularism,” the PM said.
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