Dhule: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress of pitting one caste against another and cautioned people to stay united, saying “Ek hai, toh safe hai.”
“The sole agenda of the Congress party is to make one caste fight against another. They do not want SCs, STs and OBCs to progress and get their due recognition… Remember, ‘Ek hai toh safe hai’ (We are safe if we are united),” Modi said at Dhule.
“Since Nehru’s time Congress and his family opposed reservation and now their fourth generation ‘yuvraj’ (prince) is working for caste divisions,” Modi said, addressing his first poll rally in Maharashtra for the November 20 assembly elections.
Modi also accused the Congress-led INDIA bloc of wanting to take the Constitution out of Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that no power in the world can restore Article 370 there.
Modi said the INDIA grouping is flaunting blank books passing them off as the Constitution to provoke Dalits and Adivasis.
The PM said the Congress and its allies should not encourage the “Pakistan agenda” and speak the language of separatists. The agenda won’t succeed till he has people’s blessings, said Modi.
“Only Ambedkar’s constitution will be followed in J&K .You must have seen on TV how a resolution was moved in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly on bringing back Article 370 and when BJP MLAs protested, they were thrown out. The country and Maharashtra should understand this,” Modi said.
The BJP’s star campaigner also accused the Congress of playing a dangerous game of dividing castes and communities. If ST (Scheduled Tribes), SC (Scheduled Castes) and OBCs (Other Backward Classes) stay united, the Congress politics will be over, he said.
Earlier, Modi alleged, the Congress played politics over religion which led to India’s partition and now the party is indulging in the politics of caste. There can be no bigger conspiracy against the country than this, he said at the rally in the north Maharashtra district.
Modi quipped that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), comprising Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP), as a vehicle that has neither wheels nor brakes and there is a fight there to sit in the driver’s seat.
