Congress day-dreaming to get me eliminated: Modi

Targeting the Congress par, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that in its desperation, the party has gone to the extent of day-dreaming of getting him killed.

Addressing a public meeting in Itarsi of the state, the Prime Minister said that ever since India's strong response to Pakistan-based terrorists post Pulwama attack, the Congress leaders are at their wits' end and do not know how to have me removed.

Referring to a speech of Navjot Singh Sidhu of the Congress, Modi said: "A 'man of words' of the party once asked the people to hit Modi for a six, so that he lands in Pakistan. They have started hating me and now they have even started day-dreaming to get me killed. But they are forgetting that the people of India are on my side and batting for me. Congress must be made to realise which team they are playing against."

Offering reasons for cancelling his trip to the city in February, he said that it was owing to the Pulwama attack by the terrorists groomed and trained there only, in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers had lost their life.

"But this time I haven't come here empty ended. India's strong response by launching air strikes on Pakistan's territory targeting the terror camps there is being talked about across the globe. We killed the terrorists in their home. The terrorists who would take training openly in these terror camps are now forced to run for their life. Now mere mention of Modi sends shiver down the spine of Pakistanis."

Talking about the election manifesto of the Congress party, Modi said the document says that if they come to power, they would remove the Army from Kashmir and abrogate the law that gives special powers to the Army personnel to deal with the terrorists. They have sided with the patrons of Pakistan-based terrorists, he said.

Attacking former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijaya Singh, the Prime Minister said that the Congress leader would sing peans in the praise of the same Zakir Naik, whose television channels were blocked by the Sri Lankan government after recent terror blasts in that country.

"The country and its people would never forget Congress leaders like Singh," he said.

--IANS

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