Bagalkot/Chikkodi (Karna): The Congress wants to install a “helpless” Prime Minister, Narendra Modi said Thursday, making a forceful plea for people’s mandate for a strong government, focusing on national security.
Addressing two rallies in north Karnataka on the final lap of his campaign for Lok Sabha polls in the state, Modi mocked the “never ending drama” marked by revenge and emotion that he said characterised the Congress-JDS coalition government headed by H D Kumaraswamy.
“If you want to see majboot sarkar (strong government) look towards Delhi, and if you want to see majboor (helpless) government look towards Bengaluru,” he told the crowd, amid the polling for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections to 14 constituencies in Karnataka.
Aiming big, BJP has set a target of winning 14 of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka, betting high on the “Modi wave”.
In the 2014 polls, BJP had bagged 17 seats. Modi has held back to back rallies covering all the regions in Karnataka and the state BJP has not announced any more rallies before the second phase of polls April 23.
Speaking about the “natak” (drama) by leaders that was going in Karnataka, he said the drama had emotion and revenge, and “the emotion is never ending.”
“After every few days, weeks, at any rally or press conference, emotion is flowing. Do you think of Karnataka like this?” Modi asked the crowd, apparently taking a dig at Kumaraswamy who has shed tears publicly quite often – once about being helpless as head of the Congress-JDS coalition.
“Congress likes such majboor (helpless) governments. They want such majboor Chief Minister and they want to install such majboor Prime Minister,” he told the rally in Bagalkot.
Modi said before 2014, no one even used to talk about Prime Minister, asking “was he able to take decision, every child in this country knows. Government was run through remote control,” a veiled reference to the UPA government headed by Manmohan Singh.
He said Congress had claimed in its manifesto making Pakistan agree that its citizens were involved in the Mumbai terror attack was a major achievement.
But Pakistan despite agreeing that the perpetrators were its citizens still carried out bomb explosions and even threatened India about nuclear bomb.
During the then Congress’ “majboor” government, Pakistan used to openly say “they are Jehadis do whatever you want and Congress’’ helpless government used to weep in front of the world. This was scene then.”
“…Now the new scene is before you, with 2014’s majboot government today we are able to kill terrorists by entering Pakistan and Pakistan is weeping in front of the world. Today we can hear only voice from Pakistan across the world crying bachao bachao bachao (help help help), Modi Maarta hai (Modi will kill).”
Modi took Kumaraswamy for saying the matter of airstrike on terror camps in Pakistan in Balakot should not be overpublicised “fearing the vote bank would get angry.”
PTI