‘Enemies would have come and beheaded our soldiers’
*Baba Ambedkar’s Constitution implemented in JK
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that had Congress been in power today, there would have been stone pelting on our security forces and enemies would have come from across the border and beheaded our soldiers.
Addressing a mammoth rally at Tonk in Sawai Madhopur area of Rajasthan, the Prime Minister said you gave the opportunity to Modi in 2014 to serve you in New Delhi and then the country took decisions which no one had even imagined.
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“But just imagine what could have happened if there was a Congress Government in Delhi even after 2014 and today. Had Congress been there, stone pelting would have been going on at our security forces in Jammu and Kashmir even today. Had Congress been in power, the enemies would have come from across the border and beheaded our soldiers,” Modi said.
He further said that had Congress been in power, neither One Rank One Pension (OROP) would have been implemented for our soldiers nor ex-servicemen would have got Rs one lakh crore.
Addressing another rally at Janjgir-Champa in Chhattisgarh today, Modi referred to allegations of Congress leaders that the BJP will change the Constitution if it returned to power. He asserted that nobody can change the Constitution.
He also spoke about the Government’s decision to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Some people of Jammu and Kashmir also used to say that the Constitution of India will not work there. You blessed Modi and today Baba Saheb’s Constitution has been implemented in Jammu and Kashmir,” the Prime Minister said.
PTI adds: At the Tonk rally, Modi said the Congress tried to extend reservation on the basis of religion and give it to Muslims, and once again accused the party of hatching a “deep conspiracy” to snatch people’s wealth and distribute it among “select” people.
Launching a blistering attack on the Congress, Modi also charged that it is difficult to follow one’s faith under the Congress and that even listening to Hanuman Chalisa becomes crime under that party’s rule.
His remarks come on a day when the country is celebrating Hanuman Jayanti.
The Prime Minister said as soon as the Congress formed the Government at the Centre in 2004, one of its first tasks was to reduce the SC/ST reservation in Andhra Pradesh and give it to Muslims.
“Modi is giving you a guarantee with an open heart that reservation for Dalits and backward tribals will neither end nor will it be allowed to be divided in the name of religion,” he said.
Asserting that he understands the Constitution, Modi said he is dedicated to the Constitution and is a person who worships B R Ambedkar.
Amid a row over his ‘redistribution of wealth’ remarks, the Prime Minister again charged that the Congress will snatch people’s wealth and distribute it to select people.
Modi said the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had given a speech in which he had said that Muslims have the first right on the resources of the country.
“This was not a coincidence. This is not a single statement. Congress’ ideology has always been of appeasement and vote bank politics. As soon as the Congress formed the Government at the Centre in 2004, one of the first things it did was to reduce the SC/ST reservation in Andhra Pradesh and give it to Muslims,” he said.
“This was a pilot project which the Congress wanted to try in the entire country. Between 2004 and 2010, the Congress tried to implement Muslim reservation in Andhra Pradesh four times but due to legal hurdles and the awareness of the Supreme Court, it could not fulfil its intention,” he said.
“In 2011, the Congress tried to implement it throughout the country. They played a game of snatching away the rights given to SC, ST and OBC and giving them to others for vote bank politics. The Congress did this deliberately and without caring about the Constitution and B R Ambedkar,” he said.
“I want to ask the Congress will it declare that will it divide the reservation for Dalits and backward tribals and give it to Muslims,” he said.
Modi said when the BJP Government in Karnataka got an opportunity, the first thing it did was to abolish the Muslim quota which was created by snatching it from ST and SC.
The Prime Minister said the constitutional limit for reservation was ending in 2020 and he had extended the reservation of Dalit and tribals for another 10 years.
The Congress and INDI Alliance, Modi said, were peeved after he exposed their vote bank and appeasement politics in his recent address in Rajasthan’s Banswara.
“I have put forth the truth before the country that the Congress is hatching a deep conspiracy to snatch your wealth and distribute it among ‘select’ people,” he said.
He said when he exposed the vote bank politics of Congress, it angered the Congress and its INDI Alliance so much that they have started abusing him everywhere.
Why is the Congress scared of the truth and hiding its policies, the prime minister asked.
“You have made the policy and taken the decision and when Modi exposed the secret and your hidden agenda came out, you are trembling,” he said.
The Prime Minister charged that the Congress is stuck in the quagmire of its vote bank and does not care about the Constitution.
“It is written in their manifesto that they will survey the wealth. Their leader had said in a speech that X-ray of wealth will be done. This means that if something is kept in a box or hidden in a wall, it will be searched through X-ray. Then they will capture all your property which is more than required and then distribute it among the people,” he said.
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