Sitapur (UP), May 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said Muslims now understand that the Congress and INDI bloc are using them as pawns, asserting that the community is distancing itself from them after seeing the development carried out by the BJP.
Addressing a rally in support of BJP candidate Rekha Verma in Dhaurahra, Modi said that the poor and those belonging to the SC, ST and OBC communities have also come to the BJP.
“Muslim brothers and sisters are seeing that (houses under) PM housing scheme were given to all the needy. Be it water connection or gas cylinder under Ujjwala Yojana, every government benefit was given to all…they (Muslims) are also getting benefits of all schemes without discrimination,” Modi said.
“The Muslim community also realises that the Congress and INDI alliance have made them pawns,” he said, adding that “that is why the Muslim community is also distancing itself from these contractors of vote bank politics”.
Now, to save the Muslim vote bank, these people (opposition) are playing a new game and are out doing appeasement in the open, he said.
The prime minister said the manifesto of the opposition reflects Muslim League's thinking.
Modi also attacked the opposition over the issue of abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir.
“The SP, Congress and INDI alliance claim that after coming to power they will bring back Article 370. They have disrespected Babasaheb BR Ambedkar who gave us the Constitution which was for everyone,” he said.
But the Congress did not implement it across the country, he added.
“The Indian Constitution was not implemented in Jammu and Kashmir. Dalits, tribals and OBCs did not get reservation there. There was a wall of Article 370. Modi buried this (Article 370) in kabristan (graveyard) after coming to power,” said the prime minister.
They cannot take out (Article) 370 from the grave and throw it on the forehead of the country,” he said.
