“Congress eyes not only your reservation, but also your earnings, your houses, shops and farms.The Congress ‘shehzada’ says they will conduct an X-ray of the property of every house and every family in the country. Congress will snatch all these things from you to distribute them,” Modi said, stopping just short of suggesting that Muslims would be the beneficiaries of the wealth transfer. “I need not tell you whom they will distribute it to,” he said as the audience burst into loud applause to indicate that they had got the hint.
Modi alleged that Congress had “dangerous intentions”. “Congress wants to confiscate properties and assets from people’s children and also plans to introduce reservations based on religion,” he said, asserting that faith-based reservations were aligned with Muslim League’s ideology while being violative of the Constitution.
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“Today, I would like to highlight Congress’s Muslim League-like mentality before the people of Surguja. When the Constitution was being drafted under the leadership of Babasaheb Ambedkar, it was decided that reservation would not be based on religion. If there is to be reservation, it will be for my tribal and Dalit brothers and sisters… The day their manifesto was released, I said it has the imprint of Muslim League, and I say so today,” Modi said.
“Years ago, Congress tried to implement reservation on the basis of religion in Andhra Pradesh. It planned to implement it across the country. They talked about implementing 15% reservation on the basis of religion and said it will be done after curtailing SC, ST and OBC quota,” he added.
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Accusing Congress of being “vote-hungry”, Modi said, “Congress claims it will bring about revolutionary changes once in office, but the public is not going to give them that chance. The dangerous intentions of Congress are becoming increasingly evident. They have handed over the entire Congress party, as if it was their ancestral property, to their children. But they don’t want ordinary Indians to pass on their property to their children.”
Modi stressed that the culture of the country was not consumerist. “Rather, it values accumulation, enhancement and preservation. This ethos has enabled the preservation of nature and the environment. People in India traditionally preserve their assets, intending to pass them down through generations,” he said.
“When I mentioned that urban Naxalites have infiltrated Congress, there was an uproar, and they issued statements against me… But they should not waste time nitpicking my statements. Congress only wants to loot your property… Will the people of the country allow this?” he asked.