Lok Sabha polls: PM Modi takes wealth distribution jibe at Congress, once more | Lok Sabha Elections Information

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged the voters to end up in larger numbers for voting on Friday as he slammed the Congress for its intentions of redistributing the nation’s wealth.

Addressing a public assembly in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh, Modi claimed the Congress harboured perverse designs of seizing and redistributing individuals’s property whether it is voted to energy. Nevertheless, not like his Sunday speech in Rajasthan’s Banswara, Modi in Aligarh didn’t repeat the allegation that Congress may distribute the nation’s wealth amongst “infiltrators” and “those that have extra kids”. As a substitute, he spoke of his outreach to ‘pasmanda’ or the marginalised, amongst Muslims, his authorities’s efforts at growing the Haj quota and the criminalisation of triple talaq.

The Congress on Monday requested the Election Fee (EC) to take motion in opposition to Modi for his “redistribution of wealth” remarks made on the BJP’s Banswara rally, alleging that they had been ‘divisive’, ‘malicious’ and focused a selected non secular group. A delegation of occasion leaders, together with Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Salman Khurshid, mentioned the prime minister violated the mannequin code of conduct. EC officers declined to touch upon whether or not the ballot physique will concern a discover to Modi.

In Aligarh on Monday, Modi repeated the redistribution of wealth comment, saying he needed to “alert” individuals concerning the “intentions” of the Congress and the opposition INDIA bloc.

“The Congress’ ‘shahzada’ (prince) says if his authorities comes, they may examine who earns how a lot and the way a lot property they’ve. Not solely this, he additional says the federal government will take over the property and redistribute it. That is what their election manifesto is saying,” Modi claimed, referring to Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

“Simply suppose, our moms and daughters have gold. That is ‘stridhan’ (girls’s property). It’s thought of sacred, even the legislation protects it. However now they’re eyeing a change in legislation and snatching the property of our moms and sisters. These individuals have their eyes on their ‘manglasutras’,” Modi mentioned.

He claimed that the Opposition deliberate to conduct a survey of the property owned by salaried individuals.

“Should you personal two properties, it would snatch one – the Congress will go that far. That is Maoist considering… that is communist considering. By doing this, they’ve ruined so many international locations. Now the Congress and the INDI Alliance wish to implement the identical coverage in India,” the prime minister mentioned.

In Aligarh, Modi repeatedly urged the individuals to vote earlier than having their first meal of the day.

He mentioned the individuals ought to bear in mind how a lot the safety scenario had modified from the times of serial bomb blasts, together with in Ayodhya and Varanasi and shelling in border areas to which his authorities has put a “full cease”. He mentioned first-time voters had been too younger to recollect these instances when there have been common alerts from the police to not contact any “unattended luggage”.

Addressing an election rally in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker city on Monday, Union House Minister Amit Shah mentioned, not like the Congress which says the minority (group) has the primary proper over the nation’s assets, the BJP says it’s the poor, Adivasis, Dalits and backward who’ve the primary proper over assets of the nation.

First Printed: Apr 22 2024 | 10:14 PM IST