NASHIK/KALYAN: Speaking in Kalyan,
PM Modi
said he was "being accused by their (Congress) ecosystem of raking up Hindu-Muslim issues" but he was only exposing Congress's attempts to divide the country on the basis of religion. "Should I not expose their designs? Should I think about my image and not speak about it at all? I will not allow my country to be divided like that.
Aren't all Hindustanis one?" he said. He added, "They had to create a nation in the name of religion and so they did.
Congress
was helpless and gave it. Now you will say '
Hindu
budget,' 'Muslim budget.' Can this country have a separate budget for Hindus and
Muslims
?"
Modi said Congress had shown the "green flag" to distribution of money on the lines of religion and had even asked state govts to spend 15% of their budget only on members of a minority community. "Aap kalpana kar sakte hai ki budget ka is prakar se tukde karna kitna khatarnak vichar hai. Aur aap jaante hai Congress ke liye minority sirf ek hi hai - unka apna priya votebank (You can imagine how dangerous the thinking of dividing the budget this way is. For Congress, there is only one minority community -- its dear votebank)," Modi said.
Describing UBT Shiv Sena again as "Nakli Sena", he said it had joined Congress and was mum on such things and also on Congress's clean chit to Pakistan and terrorists. He challenged UBT Sena to get "Congress's Shehzada" (Rahul Gandhi) to say 5 positive sentences about Veer Savarkar. Modi said "Nakli Sena" would merge with Congress after LS poll results and "would cease to exist." He also accused the "Shehzada" of insulting Chhatrapati Shivaji, indirectly referring to a clip where Rahul Gandhi was handed a bust of Shivaji on a dais at a rally.
The PM also said he has prepared a blueprint for work to be done in the first 100 days of govt and appealed to youth to send him innovative suggestions so he could make it a target of "the first 125 days instead of 100."
Modi reiterated Congress was planning to give Muslims quota meant for SCs, STs and economically weaker sections and said Ambedkar did not want quota on religious lines.
Modi asserted Congress would lose LS polls in such a way that it would be difficult for it to get the tag of main opposition party (in LS). Without naming Sharad Pawar, he said a senior politician of Maharashtra was aware of how Congress would fare in the polls. "That is precisely the reason he has mooted the proposal of merger of smaller parties with Congress after the elections. The merger will perhaps help Congress get recognised as the main opposition party," he said. Modi said the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena had got into a "paap ki partnership" with Congress. "They have shattered the dreams of Balasaheb Thackeray, who had stated that if his party turned into Congress, he would dissolve it."
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