MUMBAI: Urging Mumbaikars to come out on Monday and vote breaking all previous records, PM Modi at a rally at Shivaji Park on Friday said he had come “to return Mumbai’s rights to her.” He said the people’s 2019 mandate in Maharashtra had been “stolen” and development stalled but the city, which he said “understands the importance of speed,” was now getting the best infrastructure.
Modi asked Mumbaikars to remember, when they go out to vote, terror strikes and blasts that rocked the metropolis in the past and the change in situation after 2014. “There was no guarantee that when you stepped out, you’d return home alive. Today, your daughter returns home happily. Your one vote in the country’s interest has become the support the nation needs,” he said.
Attacking Uddhav, he said no other party had had such a change of heart as Thackeray’s. “A party which was known for being against infiltrators is now against CAA,” he said. Modi also asserted that no power in the world can bring back Article 370, adding it was not Modi but the power of people’s vote which had enabled such decisions. Lauding Mumbai, Modi said, “Mumbai does not just dream; it lives dreams. Mumbai has never disappointed those determined to achieve. In this dream city I have come with the dream of 2047. It is a dream for the nation, a resolve that all of us should make a ‘Viksit Bharat’, and Mumbai has big role to play.”
Modi asked Mumbaikars to remember, when they go out to vote, terror strikes and blasts that rocked the metropolis in the past and the change in situation after 2014. “There was no guarantee that when you stepped out, you’d return home alive. Today, your daughter returns home happily. Your one vote in the country’s interest has become the support the nation needs,” he said.
Attacking Uddhav, he said no other party had had such a change of heart as Thackeray’s. “A party which was known for being against infiltrators is now against CAA,” he said. Modi also asserted that no power in the world can bring back Article 370, adding it was not Modi but the power of people’s vote which had enabled such decisions. Lauding Mumbai, Modi said, “Mumbai does not just dream; it lives dreams. Mumbai has never disappointed those determined to achieve. In this dream city I have come with the dream of 2047. It is a dream for the nation, a resolve that all of us should make a ‘Viksit Bharat’, and Mumbai has big role to play.”