Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a scathing attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his “Shakti” remark, saying the opposition INDIA bloc was trying to destroy it.
At a public rally in this district headquarters town, Modi said, “Yesterday in Mumbai Shivaji Ground (park), INDI Alliance made an announcement that they want to destroy ‘Shakti’. If they want to destroy ‘Shakti’, then worshipping ‘Shakti’ is our resolve.” Gandhi had said at Shivaji park in Mumbai after the conclusion of his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’.
The Prime Minister noted that the announcement of eradicating Shakti was made at Shivaji Park where every child grows up with the Mantra of ‘Jai Bhavani, Jai Shivaji’.
“Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (17th Century AD Maratha ruler) took the blessings of Goddess Tulja Bhavani and marched for the freedom of India. He was a Shakti worshipper. And at the same Shivaji Park, it was announced to eliminate Shakti,” Modi said.
Noting that he was a worshipper of ‘Shakti’, the feminine form of God just as the crores of Hindus, he said it was ‘Shakti’ which gave him the energy when he entered the public life.
Underlining that every woman of the country is a reflection of ‘Shakti’, the feminine form of God, Modi said his government always gave preference to ‘Nari Shakti’ or the ‘women power’.
Modi quoted political experts as saying that ‘Nari Shakti’ is his silent voter. “But for me Nari Shakti is not voter, but Ma Shakti Swaroopa,” he said.
The PM took a dig at the Congress government for allegedly “plundering” Karnataka and turning the state into their ATM.
Modi claimed that corruption has gone up so much in the state that there is no money to run even the government.
He said people of the state are paying the price due to corruption and there is public anger against the state government in Karnataka.
Modi targetted Congress Bengaluru Rural candidate and three-time MP DK Suresh over his “separate nation” remarks “Congress is protecting the MP instead of throwing him out. Karnataka will not let such politics and conspiracies to succeed and it should wipe out such people in this election,” Modi said.
He appealed to the people to vote with the resolve to destroy such conspiracies.
Giving a call for ‘Ee Baari, Naanooru Meeri’ (Cross 400 this time) in Kannada, he told the crowd that it was necessary that the BJP and its ally JD(S) won in all the Lok Sabha seats.
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