Mumbai, May 8: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said making Narendra Modi prime minister for the third time would mean responding to every bullet fired from Pakistan with a cannon shell, and accused the Congress of promoting the agenda of the neighbouring country.
Shah was speaking at a campaign rally in Jalna Lok Sabha constituency in central Maharashtra for Union minister and BJP candidate Raosaheb Danve.
“Making Narendra Modi PM for the third time means responding to every bullet from Pakistan with a cannon shell,” he said.
In the BJP-led NDA, it is decided who would be the prime minister after the elections, but in the opposition’s INDIA bloc, decision was yet to be taken on the issue, the senior BJP leader said.
“Their leaders say they will become PM one by one. But such a huge country can not be run like a partnership company. They don’t have any vision. But Modi has worked for ten years and has an agenda of 25 years,” Shah said.
He also alleged that if there was anyone who takes forward Pakistan’s agenda, it was Rahul Gandhi’s Congress.
“PM Modi undertakes surgical and air strikes (against Pakistan), but Rahul Gandhi questions them. Modi ended Naxalism, but Rahul raises questions over it,” the Union home minister said.
The Congress-led opposition was talking about revoking the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, and if it came to power, it would commit the “sin of putting a lock with the name Babri on it on (Ayodhya’s) Ram Mandir,” he alleged.
Shah also accused opposition parties of standing in the way of the construction of the Ram temple, and declining the invitation for its inauguration when Modi got the temple built.
“….they refused to attend the Ram temple inauguration so that their vote bank would not be disgruntled,” the Union minister further said.
Coming down heavily on the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, the BJP’s former ally, Shah claimed that Thackeray has now allied with a party (Congress) that wants to bring back triple talaq and run the country as per the Sharia law.
“Can this country be run on the basis of Muslim Personal Law? For the sake of some constitutional post, Uddhav is now sitting with such parties,” he alleged.
