Kushinagar (UP): As campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls entered its final phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi predicted Sunday defeat of the opposition parties, stating that the people were voting for an effective government.
“Opposition parties will fall flat in Lok Sabha polls. This is because people are voting for an effective and honest government,” Modi said at an election rally here.
Attacking the SP-BSP alliance, Modi said he had been the Chief Minister of Gujarat more than the terms of Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati as Uttar Pradesh Chief Ministers combined, and there was no blot of corruption on him.
Hitting out at BSP chief Mayawati for her remarks on the Alwar gangrape case, the Prime Minister asked her ‘not to shed crocodile tears’ for the victim. “If you are serious, why don’t you withdraw support from the Congress government in Rajasthan,” he asked. Even the Congress government wanted to suppress the incident involving a Dalit woman.
Referring to the encounter in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir Sunday morning, the Prime Minister wondered, “Will our jawans take EC’s permission before opening fire at militants? Opposition kya khel bana rakha hai? (What drama is the opposition enacting).”
Modi said that he was shocked and surprised when the opposition parties were stating that elections were on and the security forces were opening fire at militants. “What else could they have done,” he asked.