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INDIAN ELECTIONS 2024

MODI TALKS

TOUGH

As India gets closer to the final three phases of elections,

PM Narendra Modi dispels the notion of communal politics, mounts attacks on the
Congress party and claims he would form the next government after June 4

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rime Minister Narendra Modi
on Thursday reiterated that
Phe has never indulged in Hin-
du-Muslim politics and slammed the
Opposition for engaging in appease-
ment politics adding that his speech-
es target parties undermining India’s
secularism. PM Modi also asserted
that he is targeting his opponents and
not the Muslim community adding
that there should be no discrimina-
tion in governance.
On being asked that the coun-
try has a secular administration,
and hence, what’s the need to bring
words like Mangalsutra, intruders,
and more children in election rallies,
PM Narendra Modi said, “I have
never done Hindu-Muslim [politics]
and will never do it. But if I say that
triple talaq is wrong, then I am [la-
belled] ‘anti-Muslim’. If I’m labelled
like this, then it is their [critics’] com-
pulsion, not mine,” PM Modi said.
The Prime Minister said that the
Opposition completely followed a
communal agenda and he “exposed Prime Minister Narendra Modi being felicitated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a public meeting in Rae-Bareli (ANI)
it, blasted it, accused it.”
PM Modi further said, “The is-
sue is that they have written in their said that he is attacking the politi- tion has been fooling the community do, I will do it for the country. Votes
manifesto that now they will bring cal parties and not the Muslims. “I for the last 75 years. “I am explaining are by-products. You cannot sink the
minorities in the contract system. am not attacking them (Muslims), I to the Muslims that they are fooling country for votes and I do not want
Contracts will be given to minorities. am attacking those political parties you, they have been fooling you for such power. I don’t accept such pow-
If I oppose the system, then I am do- who are destroying the secularism of 75 years, why are you being fooled?” er which destroys my country.”
ing that because of secularism. But India, who are doing politics of ap- When asked if he thinks that Also, slamming Congress and
just because I have to use the term peasement, who are destroying the Muslims would vote for the BJP, PM the Gandhi family over amending
minority and ‘Muslim’, then it is tak- sentiments of the Constitution of the Modi said, “Will you do everything the Constitution during their ten-
en as if I am attacking the minori- country...,” he said. for votes? Will you do nothing for ure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
ties.” In his message to the Muslim vot- the country? Will you do it to get said that till the time he is alive, he
Explaining his point, PM Modi ers, the PM claimed that the opposi- power? I am against it. Whatever I Continued on next page... >>

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