‘When Kashmir was burning, they had no faith in its people’
People will give BJP record mandate in 2024 elections
Entire country with Manipur; Centre, State working for peace
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Aug 10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today charged the Congress with trusting Hurriyat Conference, separatists and those who carried Pakistan’s flags but not our armed forces and people of Kashmir Valley.
Replying to debate on no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha, Modi also targeted the Congress for questioning surgical and air strikes.
“When Kashmir was burning day and night in the fire of terrorism, the then Congress Government didn’t trust people of Kashmir. Instead, they trusted Hurriyat Conference, separatists and even those who used to carry Pakistan’s flags,” the Prime Minister said in a blistering attack on the Opposition party and amid the slogans of shame-shame from the treasury benches.
He said Pakistan used to say that terror attacks will continue and talks will also go on but they (the then Congress Government) trusted Pakistan.
“India carried out surgical strikes on terrorism and then air strikes but they (again a reference towards Congress) had no faith in the India Army but enemy’s conspiracies,” Modi said.
He said whenever someone says anything wrong about India, the Opposition immediately trusted.
“When someone defamed India, they just enjoyed. They had no faith in Indian vaccine (for COVID) but had faith in foreign vaccines. They trusted Pakistan, but not India. They had no trust in the capabilities of the Indian people,” the Prime Minister said.
“That is why people’s feelings of no-confidence in the congress is very deep, ” He added.
In September 2016, the Indian Army launched surgical strikes against terrorist camps in Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (POJK) large number of militants were killed in the surgicial strickes.
The surgical strikes on September 28, 2016, were in response to an attack by Pakistan-based terrorists on an army base in Kashmir’s Uri on September 18 in which 19 soldiers were martyred.
The air strikes were conducted inside Pakistan in the aftermath of Pulwama terror attack.
PTI adds:- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday slammed the opposition alliance INDIA as a collection of arrogant dynasties who will take India back by two centuries as he exuded confidence that people will bless garib ka beta with a record-breaking mandate in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
In his over 130-minute reply in Lok Sabha to the no-confidence brought by opposition parties, Modi seized on Rahul Gandhi’s now-expunged reference to his government’s alleged assault on ‘Bharat Mata’ in Manipur during his speech a day before to launch a blistering counterattack, saying some are wishing death to ‘Maa Bharti’ even though their party has a history of dividing India and assaulting its people.
The Congress chopped off mother India’s limbs and divided her into three when the time came for freeing her from slavery, he said, describing Gandhi as a failed product whose repeated launches have always failed.
Reaching out to the people of Manipur, he said the entire country is with them, those behind heinous and unforgivable crimes against women will be given stringent punishment and the Centre and state governments are working together to restore peace in the ethnic violence-hit state soon.
Several opposition parties, including the Congress, had walked out by the time he touched on the Manipur issue, accusing him of not speaking on the matter.
The no-confidence motion was later defeated by a voice vote.
With the Congress and its allies constantly targeting him over the situation in the state, where over 150 people have died since May, the prime minister returned fire by describing the politics of the grand old party as the root cause of problems plaguing Manipur and the entire north east region which he described as his ‘jigar ka tukda’ (piece of heart).
He has himself visited the state by over 50 times and his government ministers over 400 times to the region, he said. This is not mere data but his government’s devotion to the northeast, he said.
Modi urged the Opposition not to do politics but work as medicine for curing the pain of people of the state in what was his likely his longest speech in Parliament during which he very much made a pitch for the BJP’s reelection in the 2024 polls, highlighting his government’s track record.
He mocked INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) bloc as an attempt to put plaster on a decrepit building and cited the development-oriented politics of the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance to assert that the Opposition could not resist incorporating its acronym in its own new nomenclature.
Their new shop will soon be shut down, he said. The opposition is all about ‘loot ki dukan’ and ‘nafrat ka bazar’, he said in what was seen as his swipe at Gandhi’s frequent ‘mohabbat ki dukan’ pitch.
The Congress was at the Centre of Modi’s political attack as he painted the party lacking any vision for the country and siding with those who work against India.
These parties have added two ‘Is’ of arrogance to the NDA, and the one ‘I’ of arrogance is of the alliance’s 26 constituents and the other ‘I’ is of arrogance of one family, he said.
You can change the label but how you will hide your old sins from people, he said, dubbing the alliance as a reflection of dynastic politics built around family name and wealth which was sought to be eliminated by the likes of Gandhi, Ambedkar, Maulana Azad and other icons of the freedom movement.
The Opposition sells hate, Emergency, partition, atrocities on Sikhs, lies, corruption and scams. Those having this shop of hate should be ashamed. They sold the self-respect of our armed forces, he said.
They are all about double-digit inflation, instability, appeasement politics, dynasty, unemployment, terrorism and a guarantee to push India back by two centuries, he said.
Charting his rise from a humble background, he said in an attack on the Gandhi family that they can’t withstand a poor person’s son in the seat of power.
The truth is that people of the country elected a government with full majority twice after 30 years. But they are worried as to how the poor’s son is sitting here, he said. They (Congress leaders) used to cut birthday cakes in airplanes while vaccines are now transported in them, they used to get dry-cleaned clothes by air but the poor now fly in planes, they used to use naval warship on vacations, he added.
This is not INDIA but ‘ghamandia’ (full of arrogance) and every leader wants to be bridegroom in its wedding procession, he said quoting a Hindi idiom.
The Congress has no policy, no intention, no vision, no understanding of global economy and no knowledge of India’s economy, Modi said, panning the party leadership as rootless and privileged who have no faith in the country’s people. It was founded by a foreigner and every aspect of its identity, from flag to poll symbol and ideas, have been stolen.
In a reference to frequent disruption in the both Houses of Parliament by the opposition parties over the Manipur situation, he said they did not allow discussion to take place on a number of bills related to the country’s development.
They have shown that ‘dal’ (party) is bigger than ‘desh’ (country) for them. You have betrayed people, he said.
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