“If you abuse Modi, then support for him will increase,” he said.
Nawalgund (Karnataka):
Hitting out at the Congress over Congress president M Mallikarjun Kharge’s “poisonous snake” remark on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said the party and its leaders have “been out of mind”.
Noting that PM Modi is greeted with great respect across the world, he said the Congress cannot instigate people with such statements, as the support for the PM will increase as much as they abuse him.
“The Congress lacks issues. In the last nine years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made India proud in the world, he has worked to make India prosperous, he has strengthened India’s infrastructure, and he has India’s borders have been secured. Wherever Modi ji goes across the world, people greet him with slogans of ‘Modi-Modi’,” Mr Shah said.
Addressing a public meeting at Nawalgund in Dharwad district, he said, “Congress President Kharge (Mallikarjun Kharge) says that our leader (PM) Modi, whom the whole world respects and welcomes, is like a poisonous snake. I ask you I want to ask, what can I do?” You make Congress party victorious in elections, who compared Modi to a poisonous snake?
Same Congress gives slogan ‘Modi teri khabar khudegi’, Sonia Gandhi says ‘maut ka saudagar’, Priyanka Gandhi says ‘neechi jati ke log’ caste), and he (Mr Kharge) says ‘vishela saamp’ (poisonous snake) Are. Congress people, you have lost your mind. No matter how much you abuse Modi, the lotus will bloom,” Mr Shah said.
The Congress cannot provoke the people of Karnataka by abusing PM Modi, he further said, adding that, “If you abuse Modi, support for him will increase.”
Addressing an election rally in the poll-bound Karnataka, Kharge on Thursday compared PM Modi to a poisonous snake. As the controversy began, he later sought to clarify that his remarks were not directed at the Prime Minister but the ruling BJP.
Shri Shah said that among the Prime Ministers of India, PM Modi is the only PM who was born as the son of a tea seller in a poor family, Shri Shah said that today after holding the high office, he is working for the welfare of crores of people. working for. Poor people
He said, “The Congress always talks about removing poverty, but has done nothing for the poor.”
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