Prime Minister Narendra Modi is rallying in Punjab today, on Friday, when he targeted the Congress over the 1984-anti Sikh riots, saying while its government "saved" the rioters, he ensured the guilty got punished.
PM Modi conducted rallies in Punjab's Gurdaspur and Jalandhar.
Speaking during the Gurdaspur rally, the PM also alleged that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann could not take any decisions on his own and had to go to the Tihar Jail in Delhi to take orders.
"'Delhi ke darbari' are running Punjab. The Punjab CM cannot take any decision on his own. His 'maalik' went to jail and the Punjab government started shutting down," the prime minister said at a poll rally here, referring to the arrest and incarceration of Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy-linked money laundering case.
Kejriwal, whose AAP is in power in Punjab, was released after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail on May 10. He has to surrender on June 2.
"To take new orders and run the government, the CM (Mann) had to go to the Tihar jail" and "he had to present his report card to him (Kejriwal)", Modi said while canvassing for BJP Lok Sabha polls candidates Dinesh Babbu (Gurdaspur), Taranjit Singh Sandhu (Amritsar) and Anita Som Parkash (Hoshiarpur).
Targeting the Congress on the anti-Sikh riots, the prime minister alleged that when the Congress was in power, it "saved" the rioters.
"It was Modi who got files of the anti-Sikh riots opened. It was Modi who ensured punishment to the guilty," he said.
Addressing a Lok Sabha poll rally in Jalandhar, his third in Punjab this election season, PM Modi pointed out that five phases of polling have been held in the country and the sixth phase is scheduled to be held on Saturday, for which campaigning has ended.
"If you stand on a chowk in Jalandhar and ask 100 people whose government is going to be formed, 90 will say Modi's government will return," he said.
"The country understands that where there is the Congress, problems will remain. Where there is the BJP, there are solutions. That is why the entire country is saying in one voice on June 4?" he asked the gathering that replied, saying "400 paar" (more than 400 seats for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the ongoing polls).
When people have made up their mind to form the Modi government again, then who will commit the mistake of voting for someone else, he said.
The country has seen a new period in the last 10 years, the prime minister said, adding that during the Congress rule, people were plagued by problems that were resolved by him.
While there was a time when the danger of terrorism was increasing in the country, his government has broken its back, PM Modi said.
Punjab is the land of gurus but the Congress never treated it more than a piece of land, the prime minister said while accusing the grand old party of dividing the state in 1947 to give power to one family.
"Kartapur Sahib is close to our border, but the Congress handed it to Pakistan," he said, referring to the country's partition.
Twenty-five crore people have been brought out of poverty during the current BJP rule, Modi said, adding that the economy was in crisis in the Congress era and now, India has become the world's fifth-largest economy for the first time.
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