Barabanki: Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued to use communally fine-tuned ploys, one after the other, to put Congress in the dock, most of them portraying it as an anti-Hindu party. On Friday, it was the turn of Ram Temple again. He had earlier accused the grand old party of boycotting the inauguration of the new Temple on January 22 this year.
On Friday, Modi said a rally here if Congress and Samajwadi Party were elected to power, they would bulldoze down the Ram Temple, in an effort to squeeze even the last juice out of the temple matter to Lok Sabha polls gain. He asked the two parties to take "tuition" from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath "where to run bulldozers", the oblique reference being to the many minority homes, business establishments and institutions which were demolished with bull-dozers claiming they were unauthorised constructions.
Addressing the rally, he also said the INDIA bloc is in the fray to create "instability" and is collapsing like a pack of cards as the polls progress.
"A senior SP leader said on the day of Ram Navami that the Ram temple is useless. At the same time, the Congress is preparing to overturn the Supreme Court's decision on Ram Temple. For them, only their family and power matter. If the SP-Congress come to power, they will send Ram Lalla back to the tent and bulldoze the temple," he claimed while asking them to take "tuition" from Adityanath as to where bulldozers should be used.
Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav had recently courted controversy with his remarks that the Ram temple in Ayodhya is "bekaar (useless)" as it has not been properly constructed, inviting sharp criticism from Adityanath who said this shows the "reality" of the INDIA bloc.
Maintaining that "nothing is bigger than a vote bank for the SP-Congress," Modi said, "But when I expose them, they become restless and lose sleep. They start saying anything and start hurling abuses." "The SP-Congress have surrendered to appeasement. And when Modi is telling the truth to the country, they say Modi is creating a Hindu-Muslim divide. The vote bank these people run after has also started understanding their truth now. Our mothers and sisters are happy with the law on triple talaq and are continuously blessing the BJP," Modi said.