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BJP president Amit Shah Friday asked Rahul Gandhi to clear stand on Omar Abdullah's separate Prime Minister in Kashmir demand,and lauding Balakot airstrikes asserted Gandhi may have the policy to talk to terrorists,Modi government's principle is to reply with cannon balls if attacked by bullet and answer bricks with rocks.
Addressing election rallies in Arunachal Pradesh,Manipur and Assam,Shah hailed NRC as a major step taken by Modi government to drive out illegal migrants and praised Modi government for bringing peace and development in the Northeast.
Making NC chief's PM in Kashmir comment a major poll issue,the BJP president said though Modi will return to power, but in any case they were in opposition and they go ahead with Abdullah's proposal "we will put our lives at stake" and not allow it "at any cost."
Attacking Congress for raising doubts over Balakot airstrikes,Shah said after Prime Minister directed Air Force to enter Pakistan and destroy terrorists camps to avenge Pulwama attack, "there was an atmosphere of mourning in two places--Pakistan, which is understanable and the other in Congress camp at a time when entire country was celebrating."
Shah hailed NRC exerise and said "give Prime Minister Narendra Modi another five years, BJP will find out each illegal migrant and throw them out of the state".
"Insaan bhi kya, parinde bhi nahi aa payenge (Forget about people, even birds cannot enter)", he said.
Abdullah had recently made a statement that ''Kashmir must have a separate Prime Minister.....Can a country have two Prime Ministers. The Congress is silent on this'', Shah said at an election rally at Ahatguri in central Assam town.
''I want to ask Rahul Baba whether Congress supports this statement of Abdullah. I know he does not have the courage to say anything on this as it requires the guts to speak on it'', he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will form the government again, but if in any case, ''we are in the opposition and they plan to materialise Abdullah's proposal, then 'hum jaan ki baazi laaga denge' (we will put our lives at stake) and not allow it at any cost'', he said.
''Kashmir will always remain a part of the country and we cannot allow it to have a separate Prime Minister'', he said.
''I want to send a message to Rahul baba that it may be your policy to talk with terrorists but it is not BJP's. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's principle is ''wahan se goli aayegi, yahaan se gola jayega'' (if we are attacked by bullet, we will reply with cannon balls. Bricks will be answered with rocks)'', the BJP president asserted.
Asserting PM's biggest achievement has been to strengthen the security of the nation, he said ''There was ten years of Congress government at the centre with Manmohan Singh, whom you had sent from Assam, as the Prime Minister. There were unabated incursions from Pakistan......jawans were attacked and beheaded but he did nothing and remained silent''.
''Can the Congress keep the nation, give a fitting reply to the enemies.If Not, then why vote for Congress'', he asked.
He asserted that the NDA has a clear and a strong leader in Narendra Modi but the opposition is still not decided who will be their Prime Minister.
The BJP chief highlighted his party's sincerity in implementing Clause 6 of the Assam Accord to protect the culture, heritage, traditions and language of the indigenous people of the state by setting a committee whose recommendation will be put forward within six months.
The youths of Assam had agitated for six years and many students were martyred till the Assam Accord was signed in 1985 but since then the successive governments did not take any concrete steps to implement the various clauses of the Accord, he alleged.
''Even in Gujarat, we used to hear 'Assam ki galiyon suni hain, Indira Gandhi khuni hain' (The lanes of Assam are silent, Indira Gandhi is a killer)'', he added.
He said in Assam, the Congress and Badruddin Ajmal's AIUDF have an understanding and ''during the day they fight and at night they do 'ILU, ILU' (wording in a hindi film song referring to the expression I love You). It is their old tactics and it is now for you to decided whether you are with the nation or with Badruddin''.
Starting the day with a rally at Bordumsa in Arunachal Pradesh, Shah claimed it was the Modi government that brought peace and development to the northeast, where militant activities were rampant even five years ago.
Terming the people of Arunachal "patriots", he said that this Himalayan state withstood the Chinese onslaught in 1962 even when then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, in a statement, expressed helplessness for Assam.
Noting that Morarji Desai was the last prime minister who attended meetings of the Northeastern Council,he said 40 years later, it was Modi who attended the convention in Shillong.
At his second stop at Manipur, Shah said that Narendra Modi has made the country more secure by becoming the first Prime Minister to destroy terrorist camps across the borders.
While addressing a public rally at Wangjing locality, he hit out at the Congress saying price of essential items had sky-rocketed under the Congress rule, owing to incessant bandhs and strikes, but the incumbent government has made the state blockade-free.
Heaping praise on the BJP-led government in Manipur for its development work, Shah said Chief Minister Biren Singh can be termed "a true chowkidaar" (watchman) as he has served in the Border Security Force.
Targetting rival Congress, Shah said "the meeting of North Eastern Council, which had been stalled for forty years during Congress rule was held at Shillong after BJP came to power"under the leadership of Modi.
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