{"id":11322,"date":"2022-12-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=11322"},"modified":"2022-12-08T16:56:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T11:26:27","slug":"pm-modi-in-kalol-takes-on-kharges-ravan-jibe-congress-leaders-compete-to-abuse-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/25\/pm-modi-in-kalol-takes-on-kharges-ravan-jibe-congress-leaders-compete-to-abuse-him\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi in Kalol takes on Kharge\u2019s Ravan jibe, Congress leaders compete to abuse him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday attacked the Congress party for \u2018competing to abuse the PM of the country\u2019, and \u2018losing its mental balance\u2019 due to defeats in elections. Campaigning for the BJP for the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections in the Vejalpur area of Kalol under the state\u2019s Panchmahal district, Modi talked about the remark made by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pointing at the jibes made by Kharge a day before, Modi said, \u201cOne Congress leader recently said, \u2018We will show Modi his aukaat\u2019\u2026 Do we have any aukaat? We are sevaks\u2026 Now, the Congress high command has sent its new president\u2026 I know him and respect him a lot. But he has been tutored to say things\u2026 But they don\u2019t know that Gujarat is the land of Ram Bhakts. They told him to come to Gujarat and call Modi \u2018a Ravan with 100 heads\u2019\u2026We know that Congress doesn\u2019t even accept the identity of Lord Ram. They have no faith in the Ram temple in Ayodhya and have even refuted the existence of Ram Setu but they brought out the Ravan from the Ramayana.\u201dModi added it\u2019s no surprise that \u2018they have used such abusive words for me\u2019. Modi said, \u201cBut, what surprises me is that the Congress party and their top leaders never officially express their apologies\u2026 Yes, one could have said things in a fit of rage but an apology could follow\u2026 However, the Congress party thinks it is their right to insult the Prime Minister of the country and downgrade the PM. If they had any faith in democracy, they would not have done this. But their faith is not in democracy but in one family\u201d.The prime minister said Congress leaders compete with each to amplify the attacks on him. \u201cThere is a competition in Congress to abuse Modi. Every leader is aiming to make the abuses bigger, more frequent, and more acerbic\u2026 Recently, one of them said Modi will die a dog\u2019s death, another said Modi will die like Hitler, then they were waiting for Pakistan to kill me\u2026 and then one says, \u2018If I get a chance, I will kill Modi\u2019\u2026 They call me Ravan, rakshas (demon), and cockroach\u2026 I am the son of Gujarat. Is this insult to Modi, whom you have created and raised, not your own insult? The Congress is not aware that the more muck you (Congress) throw, you will see those many more lotuses blooming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the event in Kalol\u2014on the foothills of the Pavagadh Temple dedicated to Goddess Kali\u2014Modi invoked her blessings and called December 1 an important day in history as India takes over the presidency of the G20 summit. Modi said, \u201cToday, India has taken over the Presidency of the G20, which is a group of countries of the world, who are economically reliant\u2026 It will add fragrance to the gold India has. The G20 group leads 75 per cent of the trade of the world. Is this not a moment of pride for all Indians? We have to take this opportunity to make India reach the top.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding that the stretch of Vadodara-Halol-Kalol-Godhra-Dahod will soon become an integral part of Make in India, Modi blamed the Congress for creating an \u2018ecosystem of import and commissions\u2019 and depriving employment opportunities in the country. Modi said, \u201cThere was a time when even the smallest of things had to be imported from abroad. The Congress had created an ecosystem to import everything, earn commissions from it, run their own lives, and leave the country to its fate. Had this (Make in India campaign) been done 30-40 years earlier, India\u2019s employment opportunities would have been at a different level today\u2026 They (Congress) imported expensive items of substandard quality\u2026 The country never became self-reliant due to this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modi also accused the Congress of \u201ctaking pleasure\u201d in the insult of places of faith and worship. He said, \u201cEarlier, seeing the Pavagadh temple without a shikhar would be a heart-wrenching experience. It was a 500-year-old insult. I had vowed to change the situation\u2026 Was Pavagadh not in existence during the Congress rule? But they were not able to see the strength (of the shaktipeeth) which I could see. We launched a campaign to end the insults on Gujarat\u2019s faith\u2026 Congress party enjoys the insults to faith and worship\u2026 I don\u2019t t know what is wrong with them. You can lose elections but it cannot become the reason for you to lose your mental balance\u2026 Even we used to lose our deposits earlier but we never behaved like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday attacked the Congress party for \u2018competing to abuse the PM of the country\u2019, and \u2018losing its mental balance\u2019 due to defeats in elections. Campaigning for the BJP for the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections in the Vejalpur area of Kalol under the state\u2019s Panchmahal district, Modi talked about …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[15480,15481,15479,12134],"class_list":["post-11322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-elections","tag-gujarat","tag-modi","tag-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11412,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11322\/revisions\/11412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}