Pathankot: In a blistering attack on opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the Congress and Aam Aadmi Party of being โpartners in crimeโ. He called AAP a โphotocopyโ of the Congress and said both of them are not happy with the Ayodhya temple or whenever the army does something. โDonโt tolerate these people,โ he said to a cheering audience at an election rally in Punjabโs Pathankot and added that โone party looted Punjab, and the other is doing corruption in Delhiโ.
AAP took support from the Congress to form the government in Delhi as well, PM Modi pointed out. โPunjab has decided, iss baar pakka parivartan. (This time change for sure),โ he said. The Prime Minister claimed that the BJP looks at Punjab from the perspective of โPunjabiyatโ whereas his rivals look at the state only through the lens of political power.
The PM also mentioned the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor โ the road to Darbar Sahib Kartarpur (the final resting place of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism) in Pakistan. โThey (Congress) abandoned Kartarpur Gurudwara in Pakistan. Should they have not made efforts to keep it in India? In 1965, if they tried, we would have had Gurunanakโs birthplace in India,โ he said while claiming credit for the development of the corridor.
The PM accused the Congress of belittling and insulting the sacrifices of the soldiers who died during the 2016 Pathankot attack. He said that the country was together in the response to the attack except for the Congress party. โThey questioned the government, the people of Punjab and even our army. They belittled the sacrifices of the soldiers,โ he said.
The PM said that even during the anniversary of the 2019 terror attack in Pulwama, the Congress was doing the same. โEven on Pulwama anniversary, they continue their โpaap leelaโ,โ he said.
On February 14, 2019, Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group had attacked a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, killing 40 personnel of the force.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been under fire from the BJP for raising questions on the โsurgical strikeโ by Indian forces in response to the Pulwama attack. Days after the attack, Indian warplanes had struck the biggest terrorist training camp of JeM deep inside Pakistanโs Balakot in retaliation to the attack.
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