(Our Special Correspondent)
Chitradurga (K’taka): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday alleged that the Congress’s history is about “appeasing terror and terrorists”, and the party had allegedly questioned the country’s defence forces, when the surgical strikes and air strikes had been carried out.
Also accusing the Congress and JD(S) of “encouraging terror”, the Prime Minister said they could never increase investment in Karnataka or create new opportunities for youth in the state.”People of Karnataka should never forget Congress’s history and thinking. Congress’s history is about appeasing terror and terrorists. When the Batla House encounter happened in Delhi, there were tears in the eyes of Congress’s top most leader, hearing about the death of terrorists,” Modi claimed.
Addressing a public meeting here, he said, “When surgical strikes happened, when air strikes happened, Congress raised questions on the capability of the country’s defence forces.”.”In Karnataka, you have seen how Congress is encouraging terrorism. Congress had left Karnataka to the ‘rehemokaram’ (mercy) of terrorists. It is the BJP that broke the back of the terrorists, and has ended the game of appeasement,” he claimed, adding that for a prosperous Karnataka, it was important for the state to be safe.
Union Minister A Narayanaswamy and Davangere MP G M Siddeshwara, among others, were present. “Usually when a company brings out a product in the market, it gives warranty for it and says after the warranty is over the company is not responsible,” Modi said. “Congress’s warranty has ended. Congress has lost the trust. In such a case, guarantees by the Congress without warranty are nothing but lies.”.Modi also claimed that the Congress had an “old track record of false guarantees”. He claimed that the Congress in 2012 had “tried to confuse the people of Gujarat with such false guarantees”, and “some people had even tried to loot the poor people” in the name of guarantees.
“It’s such a situation for Congress in Gujarat now, that it has to get people from other states to hold its flag,” he claimed. Noting that the Congress in Karnataka too was getting “forms of its guarantees filled”, the Prime Minister said, “There should be an inquiry on how much bribe the Congress is taking by showing the forms of false guarantees.”.Congress knows clearly that the people of Karnataka would not allow it to come to power, so it is making big false promises, he claimed. “The amount which will be required for Congress’s guarantees is so much that Karnataka’s treasury will become empty, and still they cannot be fulfilled.
