RANCHI, Apr 21: National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah said on Sunday that Lord Ram belongs to everyone, not only Hindus.
Abdullah was addressing the opposition INDIA bloc’s ‘Ulgulan Naya Maharally’ in Ranchi.
Without naming any party, he said, “They are selling Lord Ram, claiming that they brought him. They do not know Lord Ram. He does not belong to Hindus alone but to the world. Ram is for everyone. But they have made Ram their own, claiming He is only theirs.”
Attacking the saffron party, Abdullah said that it got scared of the popularity of former Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
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“They were put behind the bar without any fault,” he said.
Abdullah appealed to people to cast their vote in favour of INDIA bloc candidates to save the country and democracy.
Meanwhile, Leaders of the INDIA bloc on Sunday exhorted the electorate to show exit door to BJP and autocratic forces all out to terrorise opposition leaders in the elections to “save constitution and democracy”.
In a mega show of strength at the ‘Ulgulan Nyay Mahrally’ in Ranchi, leaders of about 28 parties condemned the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and attacked the saffron party for allegedly unleashing all central forces like ED and CBI to harass opposition-ruled States.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge hit out at the BJP-led Centre for trying to “terrorise” Hemant Soren, and asserted that the JMM leader preferred going to jail rather than parting ways with the INDIA bloc.
Kharge also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that he insulted President Droupadi Murmu and the tribal community by not inviting her to Ram temple consecration and inauguration of the Parliament building.
Kejriwal’s wife Sunita and Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana also addressed the gathering, lashing out at the central government over the arrest of their husbands in alleged corruption cases.
Sunita accused the Centre of denying insulin to her diabetic husband.
“They want to kill my husband Arvind Kejriwal. His food is under camera observation; he is denied insulin. My husband is a sugar patient who has been on insulin for the last 12 years; he needs 50 units of insulin daily,” she said at the Ulgulan Nyay Rally.
Jailed ex-Jharkhand CM’s wife Kalpana Soren alleged the BJP was trying to topple governments in opposition-ruled states and said democracy cannot be allowed to fail.
“Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and my husband Hemant Soren were jailed just before the elections by forces that were hatching conspiracies against their governments,” she said.
RJD leader and former Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav also accused Modi of spreading lies and said that the BJP-led Centre has given price rise, unemployment and poverty to the people of the country.
He also mocked the saffron party by terming the BJP as ‘Badka Jhootha Party’.
Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh hit out at PM Modi saying he possessed a washing powder that cleans corruption instantly.
Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav said this Ulgulan Rally is to wipe out the BJP which destroyed the nation in the past 10 years.
Priyanka Chaturvedi of Shiv Sena (UBT) alleged that the ED, CBI and I-T are the extended departments of the BJP and they are being used to oppress the governments of opposition parties.
TMC leader Vivek Gupta said that every vote should be used to defeat BJP in the Lok Sabha polls in the country.
CPI(ML) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya said that BJP and RSS wanted to change the name of Jharkhand as Vananchal.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said Hemant Soren and Arvind Kejriwal are popular leaders capable of wiping out the saffron party.(PTI)
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