Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday here called Congress and Samajwadi Party "sympathisers of Pakistan" and alleged that these parties are "scaring the country" with its nuclear power status.
Addressing a rally here, Modi alluded to the partnership in UP between Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav in 2017, when the two campaigned together for the assembly elections – and failed.
"I am surprised by the repeated release of flop film of two 'shehzadas' of SP and Congress," Modi said.
The Congress this time is contesting from 17 of the 80 Lok Sabha in a seat-sharing agreement with the SP.
On Pakistan, Modi said, "This patron of terrorism which once used to dare us is in such a condition that its people are hard up even for food grain... Pakistan is finished but it's sympathisers, SP and Congress, are busy scaring the country." "They say one needs to be scared of Pakistan because it has an atom bomb. Don't they know what is 56-inch (chest)? It's not the weak Congress government ... but the strong government of Modi," he said at a rally campaigning for BJP's Basti Lok Sabha candidate Harish Dwivedi.
"India does not spare those who tries to bully it. India today beats them in their own homes," he said.
Referring to Akhilesh Yadav's claim that the INDIA bloc is winning 79 seats in the state, Modi said, "People of UP on June 4 will wake the SP and Congress up from their slumber. They will then blame EVM for defeat." He lambasted the two parties for their refusing to accept the invitation to attend the Ram temple in Ayodhya, and alleged that Congress had designs to get the Supreme Court to overturn its verdict on the temple.
"These people talk of destroying Sanatan Dharma... The shehzada of Congress wants to change the Supreme Court's judgement of Ram Temple. They dream of putting a Babri lock on the Ram temple and want to send Ram Lalla back to the tent," he said.
Modi referred to the nearly two-year-long Emergency and said that Congress talks of Constitution but it did not even follow the party's constitution.
He claimed that former Congress president Sitaram Kesri, who belonged to a backward community, was locked in a bathroom the day Sonia Gandhi was made the party's president.
The PM also accused Congress of trying to change the Constitution and end reservation for the Dalits and backwards.
"These people want to snatch the reservation of Dalit and Backwards and give it to those who do Vote Jihad. Congress wants to change the Constitution to give reservation to Muslims. Samajwadi Party is standing with Congress in its anti-Dalit and anti-backward conspiracy," he said.
On the SP, Modi said it used to accord goons and rioters special protocol during its government.
"Yogi Adityanath and his government had to make efforts to bring UP from the ditch it was thrown in long back," Modi said.
Seeking the public's support, the PM said their votes will bury the "politics of appeasement in kabristan" and ensure the future of the country.
"We have become the fifth largest economy. When India speaks, the world listens and tries to accompany India in the decisions made by it," he said. Modi was accompanied by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on the stage.
Adityanath in his address expressed confidence of thumping victory for the BJP. "When we talk of crossing 400, SP and Congress start fainting because they are not even contesting on 400 seats together." BJP's Harish Dwivedi is pitted against Ram Prasad Chaudhary of Samajwadi Party. Polling in Basti will be held in the sixth phase on May 25.
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