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| Modi promises citizenship rights to refugees, rehabilitation to KPs | | 'Kejriwal, Antony Pak agents' | | *Invokes Mookerjee, Sheikh Abdullah; asks J&K to decide
Syed Junaid Hashmi
Hiranagar (Kathua), Mar 26: Promising to free country and the state of Jammu and Kashmir from dynasty politics, Bharatiya Janta Party's Prime Ministerial nominee Narendra Modi today promised citizenship rights to over 1 lakh West Pakistani refugees besides extending rehabilitation package to refugees of Pakistani Occupied Kashmir (POK).
Modi said that the Pandit community has suffered internal exile in India for over two decades and assured that the BJP is committed to ensure justice to all. He said that if the BJP comes to power in New Delhi, the refugees who have come to Jammu from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) in 1947, 1965 and 1971 would be given relief and rehabilitation package while those who came here from West Pakistan would be given citizenship rights in Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing the first of his 185 'Bharat Vijay Rallies' today, at the hockey stadium in Hiranagar, Kathua district, a few kilometres from the International Border and the site of a terror attack in September 2013 in which a top Army officer along with 10 jawans, policemen and civilians were killed, the BJP leader condemned the continuous sacrifice of the lives of jawans in attacks from across the border.
Calling for an end to divisive politics over these matters, he said the time has come for nationalist politics (rashtraniti). "While illegal immigrants from Bangladesh get citizenship and voter identity cards, the refugees from West Pakistan get nothing. They deserve citizenship and justice, we will do it. The nation is fed up of promises, it wants pure intentions," said Modi.
Upping the ante against cross-border terrorism, Narendra Modi mocked that Pakistan has three great Generals (Sipah Salar) who are given great respect by its media, and said that nation needs to them. "Coincidentally, these great resources of Pakistan are all 'AKs'; the first is the AK-47 rifle that is used to bleed India repeatedly. The second is AK Antony (Union Defence Minister) who insisted in Parliament that the persons who beheaded our jawans came wearing Pakistani uniforms when the Army asserted that the killings were done by Pakistani soldiers, Modi said.
"Whom is he helping?" the Gujarat Chief Minister asked with thunderous applause from the audiences. The third resource, he said, is one AK-49 who gave birth to a new political party and on its official website displayed the map of India with Kashmir gifted to Pakistan. Calling A.K.Antony and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal "agents of Pakistan and enemy of India" for speaking in a tone that is appreciated by Pakistan, Modi said, "The map on that party's website has shown Kashmir in Pakistan. Much to the comfort of Pakistan three AKs have emerged on our land."
Pleased with the massive turnout at the rally, Narendra Modi said that the state has to choose between the path suggested by Shyama Prasad Mookerjee or that chosen by Sheikh Abdullah, between the road travelled by the Congress or that mooted by Atal Bihari Vajpayee who had instilled confidence in the youth of better days ahead in the name of 'Insaniyat'.
Raising the pitch of his attack on the Congress-UPA Government, the BJP's Prime Ministerial contender said that Lal Bahadur Shastri gave the nation the memorable slogan, "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan", but the UPA-Congress regime had allowed our jawans to be killed and even beheaded. Ordinary policemen armed only with sticks were killed mercilessly and their children orphaned, farmers are committing suicide in thousands and recently in Vidarbha he had discovered that there is hardly a village free of farmer suicide.
The ruling coalition, he charged, has implemented such policies that its slogan appears to be "mar jawan, mar kisan". Calling for an end to the rule of dynasties in Delhi and Srinagar, Narendra Modi said that dynasty politics has no place in a democracy and that the rule by generations of certain families had brought ruination to the land. The country needs rulers who can toil for 18 hours a day to create policies and programmes that will improve the lot of the people, "Congress does not have the courage to walk on this path," Modi said.
He maintained that Congress resorts to the ruse of secularism to avoid debate on any serious issue and duck responsibility for its misdeeds. Narendra Modi claimed "When I say, let's talk about ending terrorism and taking care of farmers", they insist that secularism is in danger. If I say there should be discussion on employment for youth or curbing the price rise, the answer is that secularism must be saved first. Such leaders have no solutions to the problems of the people."
One Congress leader, the BJP veteran said, softly dropping the word 'shehzade', said that 'Congress is an idea'. Instead, he mocked, "I say Congress soch mein pad gayi hai, ek chaiwala kahan se aa gaya. In Congress, people sometimes become Ghulam and sometimes Azad." The country, he continued has been ruined by the Congress mindset and needs to choose between the thinking of Jawaharlal Nehru and that of Sardar Vallabbhai Patel.
The nation needs employment for the youth, respect for women, and freedom from starvation, and it is a shame that these minimum needs have not been realised despite over six decades of independence, he said. A population of 125 crore has a right to freedom from the struggle of its parents' generation, and to save the next generation from such futile struggles. Neither the Congress nor Governments with the Congress gotra (kinship) can ensure this, he said, and promised to undo the ruination of the past decades if voted to power.
Modi also condemned lack of uniform application of laws in the State, most notably the Prevention of Corruption Act and the denial of rights to backward communities, and lambasted the Congress’ silence on the matter. Equating Congress rule with the corruption that bedevils the nation, he said the practice of Re 1 becoming 15 paise by the time it reaches the villages would come to an end only when the UPA-Congress is booted out of power. He promised to protect the national treasury like a 'chowkidar' and said only development could bring progress to the people and the nation. |
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