Mangaluru, May 5: Like local leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held the Congress government responsible for the murders of “innocent BJP activists” in Karnataka. However, did not clarify whether the Congress responsible for murders of the BJP activists directly committed by the Sangh Parivar activists.
Addressing a massive crowd at Nerhru Maidan in the heart of the city, Mr. Modi went on to claim that the Congress government was looking at the religion of the accused to decide whether he/she should be in the prison or not.
He alleged that nearly 24 BJP party workers had been murdered in the State during the Congress rule as they followed a different ideology.
Mr. Modi said because of family politics of the Congress the State was being ruled by mafias.
Apart from education and liquor mafia, the mafia of cable, transfer and sand were getting stronger.
“It has come to a situation where it has become difficult for a common man to get sand necessary for construction of the house. He has to slog for days and forced to purchase sand at a higher rate from sand mafia operators,” he said and added that the people would vote out the Congress for its five years of misrule. Assuring people that the B.S. Yeddyurappa-led BJP government would work for the all-round development of the State, Mr. Modi said the Centre too was coming out with projects that will transform the Karnataka coastline.
Reaching out to Muslims in the communally sensitive coastal belt, Mr. Modi raised the triple talaq Bill issue. He said it was the Congress that had stalled the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill in the Rajya Sabha as it had the numbers in the House.
The Prime Minister said the Congress was now left with no other “agenda” but to oppose his (Mr. Modi’s) every action and move within and outside the country.
PM coins new definition for EVMs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gave a new definition for Electronic Voting Machines even as he flayed the Congress for its oft-repeated accusation that the Centre and BJP got EVMs manipulated for winning elections.
"True EVM is this. E- Energy of the people, V-people's electoral value addition, and M stands for people's motivation for progress. This is EVM, I can see this EVM," Modi said at an election rally here.
He said the writing on the wall is clear with regard to the Karnataka assembly polls.
"On May 15, BJP will form government with full majority...So they have already started saying that Modi has tampered with EVM. Modi did not defeat us EVM did it.
Wherever they win there EVM is good and where they lose there they start singing about EVMs," Modi said.
"On May 15, let Congress make any excuses they want. People will punish them for their sins of five years (in Karnataka)," he said.
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