Congress is contesting LS elections on two strategies...: PM Modi
May 02, 2024
Jamnagar (Gujarat) [India], May 2 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday accused the Congress party of using caste divisions and politics of appeasement to unite their "vote bank" for the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
Addressing a public rally in Jamnagar, PM Narendra Modi said, "Congress is contesting these elections on two strategies. First, dividing society based on caste. Second, uniting their vote bank through politics of appeasement... Congress is now giving its all to its main motive in these elections. Congress wants to take away reservations from SC, ST, and OBC and give it away to Muslims based on religion, by changing the Constitution."
PM Modi also claims that the Congress party did not respond to his challenge of providing a written assurance that they would not alter the Constitution to provide quotas for Muslims based on religion.
"It has been 9 days since I have challenged the Congress, and they haven't given me a reply on the same... My first challenge is, will the Congress give in writing that they will not change the Constitution and give reservations to Muslims based on religion? Second, will they give it in writing that they will not compromise with the rights of the SC, ST, and OBC by giving away their share of the reservation to Muslims? Will they give in writing that their state governments and their leaders will not run a hidden agenda to give reservations to Muslims? They are quiet, which means something is fishy," he said.
Launching an attack on the Congres party, PM Modi said, "When Congress released its manifesto, I alerted the country, especially the intellectuals, that the Congress manifesto is a red alert for the country. I clearly said that I could see the image of the Muslim League in their manifesto, which many thought was a mere political statement... The narratives that had been imposed during the partition of the country by the Muslim League, unfortunately, similar scenes are being seen today. INDI alliance leaders, in their rallies, are asking Muslim voters to go for vote jihad. And these words came from a very senior Congress leader coming from a very well-educated family."
Notably, Gujarat, the home state of both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, is a citadel of the BJP, with the party winning all 26 seats in the last two general elections.
The state will vote for 25 out of 26 parliamentary seats in the Lok Sabha elections on May 7.
On the remaining constituency of Surat, BJP candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected 'unopposed' after the nomination papers of the Congress party's candidate Nilesh Kumbhani were rejected, as his three proposers claimed in an affidavit to the district election officer they had not signed his nomination form.
