‘Positive results from steps taken for better future of J&K’
Cong didn’t let tricolor fly for 70 years in Kashmir
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the most satisfactory event for him in the ongoing Parliamentary elections is increase in voting percentage in Kashmir.
“Pictures of long queues outside the Polling Stations in Kashmir will fill everyone with energy,” Modi said in an interview to Navbharat Times.
The Prime Minister said he feels satisfied that positive results are coming out of whatever steps they have taken for better future of Jammu and Kashmir.
Worthwhile to mention here that voting percentage in Srinagar was around 39 while it went up to 59 in Baramulla, the two seats of Kashmir which went to polls on May 13 and May 20 respectively. Now, Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary constituency is scheduled to go to votes on May 25 and the Election authorities are also expecting good turnout there.
Addressing a massive rally in Haryana today, Modi charged the Congress with not letting the tricolor fly in Kashmir for 70 years.
“Congress not only insults our faith but also our tricolor. Who didn’t let the tricolor fly in Kashmir for 70 years? Congress. Today these people are saying that if they come to power, they will re-impose Article 370,” the Prime Minister said.
He also slammed the Congress saying it was the party that kept Kashmir separate from India.
On the Congress raising the One Rank One Pension (OROP) issue, Modi alleged that the party had deceived ex-servicemen by depriving them of OROP for many decades.
“The Congress is full of hatred for the Army and soldiers,” he said.
Modi said if the Congress has its way, it will arrest everyone who says “Ram Ram”, and accused the party of dividing India and creating two Muslim nations to appease its vote bank.
The INDIA bloc is “extremely communal, casteist and nepotist”, he said while alleging that when the Congress was in power, it did not allow the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
In this election, “you will not only choose the country’s PM but also decide the country’s future,” Modi said.
“On one hand is your tried and tested ‘sewak’ Modi. Who is on the other side, one does not know,” he said, targeting the INDIA bloc.
“The alliance is talking about having five PMs in five years, with a PM for each year. Can a country be run like this”? Modi asked and added that at ‘chaupals’ in Haryana, people will come up with “5,000 jokes” of the INDIA bloc’s “five PM project”.
PTI adds: The Prime Minister said the SCs, STs and OBCs have been given reservation by the Constitution but “they (the Opposition) want to snatch it and give it to those who do vote jihad”.
He said that the Calcutta High Court has cancelled OBC certificates given to Muslims in the last 10-to-12 years.
“Had there not been the court, then what would have happened. What could our downtrodden, Dalit and adivasi brothers and sisters do? You look at the mentality of the INDI Alliance. The Bengal CM has announced that she would not accept the HC verdict. She would give OBC reservation to Muslims,” Modi said.
“The Congress, the TMC, and the INDI Alliance and all its outfits strongly stand by their vote bank,” he said.
The Calcutta High Court, in its verdict on Wednesday, struck down the OBC status granted to “77 classes” in West Bengal and noted that “religion indeed appears to have been the sole criterion” for declaring these classes as OBCs.
After the first three phases of polling for the Lok Sabha elections, Modi said, the INDIA bloc started making grounds for whom to blame for their defeat. It has targeted the Election Commission on electoral data and Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), he said.
“Their (INDIA bloc) Government is not going to come for ‘saat janam’ and every vote given to the Congress is going to waste,” Modi said.
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