KOLKATA/MALDA/PATNA: PM Narendra Modi blamed Trinamool Congress on Friday for leaving nearly 26,000 families in Bengal without a livelihood by orchestrating an alleged hiring scam that forced Calcutta HC to scrap appointments made by the School Service Commission in 2016 and order some recruits to return their salaries with interest.
“Trinamool has played with the future of Bengal’s youth.Not only have they lost their source of income because of the school recruitment scam, these youth have been saddled with loans they had taken to pay Trinamool functionaries,” Modi said at a poll rally in Malda.
The PM bracketed CM Mamata Banerjee’s party with Congress on the inheritance tax row, questioning the former’s “silence” both on the grand old party’s plan to “loot” citizens and give away their wealth to “infiltrators”.
“Loot zindagi ke saath bhi, zindagi ke baad bhi (Loot in life and after death),” he said, iterating what he said at Chhattisgarh’s Surguja two days ago.
Thanking the crowd for its love and affection, the PM said, “At times, I feel I was born in Bengal in a previous birth. Or maybe I will be born to a Bengal mother in my next birth.”
Malda district has two constituencies: Malda (North) and Malda (South). According to the 2011 census, Muslims constitute 51% of the population. While BJP won Malda (North) and Congress Malda (South) in 2019, TMC made significant gains in the panchayat polls.
In Bihar’s Araria and Munger, Modi focused on Congress’s “Karnataka model of robbing OBCs of their 27% quota” by including all Muslims, irrespective of their financial status, in the backward castes’ list.
He alleged that Congress could go to any lengths to alter the Constitution as an extension of its “appeasement policy”, linking it with previous attempts to introduce religion-based reservation and former PM Manmohan Singh’s statement that minorities have the first right to national resources.
“While the INDIA bloc believes in tushtikaran (appeasement), BJP-led NDA has always aimed for santushtikaran (satisfaction of all). Whoever has the right to something should get it. I provided tap water, toilets, electricity, and free rations to mothers and sisters without asking about their religion. This is true secularism and social justice.”
Without naming former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad, he said RJD hadn’t uttered a word on Congress’s strategy as they were hand in glove in pursuing vote-bank politics. “The rights of the OBCs are being snatched, and RJD is clapping. But if Modi is there, these people cannot pull it off. This is Modi’s guarantee,” he said to applause.
“Trinamool has played with the future of Bengal’s youth.Not only have they lost their source of income because of the school recruitment scam, these youth have been saddled with loans they had taken to pay Trinamool functionaries,” Modi said at a poll rally in Malda.
The PM bracketed CM Mamata Banerjee’s party with Congress on the inheritance tax row, questioning the former’s “silence” both on the grand old party’s plan to “loot” citizens and give away their wealth to “infiltrators”.
“Loot zindagi ke saath bhi, zindagi ke baad bhi (Loot in life and after death),” he said, iterating what he said at Chhattisgarh’s Surguja two days ago.
Thanking the crowd for its love and affection, the PM said, “At times, I feel I was born in Bengal in a previous birth. Or maybe I will be born to a Bengal mother in my next birth.”
Malda district has two constituencies: Malda (North) and Malda (South). According to the 2011 census, Muslims constitute 51% of the population. While BJP won Malda (North) and Congress Malda (South) in 2019, TMC made significant gains in the panchayat polls.
In Bihar’s Araria and Munger, Modi focused on Congress’s “Karnataka model of robbing OBCs of their 27% quota” by including all Muslims, irrespective of their financial status, in the backward castes’ list.
He alleged that Congress could go to any lengths to alter the Constitution as an extension of its “appeasement policy”, linking it with previous attempts to introduce religion-based reservation and former PM Manmohan Singh’s statement that minorities have the first right to national resources.
“While the INDIA bloc believes in tushtikaran (appeasement), BJP-led NDA has always aimed for santushtikaran (satisfaction of all). Whoever has the right to something should get it. I provided tap water, toilets, electricity, and free rations to mothers and sisters without asking about their religion. This is true secularism and social justice.”
Without naming former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad, he said RJD hadn’t uttered a word on Congress’s strategy as they were hand in glove in pursuing vote-bank politics. “The rights of the OBCs are being snatched, and RJD is clapping. But if Modi is there, these people cannot pull it off. This is Modi’s guarantee,” he said to applause.