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'Made in Amethi' AK-203 rifles to help troops fight terror, says PM Modi

PM accused the Congress-led UPA government of not only delaying the AK-203 rifles' manufacturing project but also sabotaging the Rafale deal

PM Narendra Modi launches a Kalashnikov rifle manufacturing unit in Amethi on Sunday. Also seen are UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Union ministers Smriti Irani and Nirmala Sitharaman 	Photo: PTI
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PM Narendra Modi launches a Kalashnikov rifle manufacturing unit in Amethi on Sunday. Also seen are UP CM Yogi Adityanath, Union ministers Smriti Irani and Nirmala Sitharaman Photo: PTI

Virendra Singh RawatPTI Lucknow/Patna
Laying the foundation stone of a Kalashnikov manufacturing unit in Amethi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the guns produced in the new facility would be used to fight terrorists and the Naxals , and that the project was the best example of his government’s ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas (together with all, development for all)’ motto.

The prime minister — who landed in Amethi after addressing the pre-poll Sankalp rally in Patna where he slammed the Opposition for doubting the IAF’s strike on a terror camp in Pakistan — accused