Prime Minister Narendra Modi kept the heat on Congress and its allies on the passing of a resolution in the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir recently seeking restoration of special status saying they are hatching a scheme to have separate Constitution for the Union Territory.
Addressing a massive election rally at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra which goes to polls on November 20, he charged the Congress and its allies for making all out efforts to restore Article 370 (which granted special status to erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir and was abrogated by the Central Government on August 5, 2019).
“The Congress and its allies are hatching a scheme to have a separate Constitution for Jammu and Kashmir. They are making all efforts for restoration of Article 370,’’ the Prime Minister said.
“Will the people of Maharashtra support the Congress and its allies who speak the language of Pakistan?” Modi asked.
Stating that the Congress and its allies have passed a resolution to restore Article 370 in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly recently, Modi recalled that when the BJP Government made J&K free from Article 370, the Congress opposed this not only in Parliament but the Court as well.
He declared that Kashmir is an integral part of India and every Indian wants that there should be only Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Constitution in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Prime Minister and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have repeatedly been hitting out at the Congress and its allies during election campaign in Maharashtra and Jharkhand on passing of resolution in first session of the Legislative Assembly seeking restoration of special status and Constitutional guarantees to Jammu and Kashmir, a reference towards Article 370.
The resolution was supported by National Conference, Congress and other parties but was strongly opposed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the main opposition in Jammu and Kashmir with 28 MLAs.
PTI adds: “The Congress used to say that reservations were against the country. It considered reservations were against merit. The mentality and agenda of the Congress remains unchanged. Therefore, they can’t come to terms with the fact that someone from OBC has been the PM of the country for the last 10 years,” Modi said.
“The Prince of Congress, while he is abroad, openly claims that his party will scrap reservations. To further their agenda, Congress and Maha Vikas Aghadi are conspiring to divide SCs, STs and OBCs into small castes,” he said.
Modi also said the BJP-led Mahayuti Government renamed Aurangabad as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, and fulfilled the wish of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray.
“The whole Maharashtra knows that the demand to rename this city as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar was raised by Balasaheb Thackeray,” he said.
The Congress party went to the court to overturn this decision, he added. The Maha Vikas Aghadi Government was in power for two-and-a-half years but did not have the courage to rename the city under pressure from the Congress, he said.
“This election in Maharashtra is not just an election to elect a new Government. In this election, on one side there are patriots who believe in Sambhaji Maharaj and on the other side there are people who praise Aurangzeb,” Modi said.
“BJP-Mahayuti ahe, tar gati ahe, Maharashtrachi pragati ahe (If there is Mahayuti there is progress in Maharashtra),” Modi said. The people of Maharashtra and Marathwada had been demanding for decades to give classical language status to Marathi, Modi said.
This work related to Marathi pride was completed by the BJP, he added. “Maharashtra has attracted the maximum FDI after the formation of the Mahayuti Government. The people have benefited due to the investment,” he said.
