Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Noting that greater than 90,000 Pakistani troopers surrendered within the 1971 Indo-Pak Warfare, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asserted if he had been in energy he would have taken Kartapur Sahib from Pakistan earlier than releasing their troops. Addressing a rally at Patiala, his first within the state for the seventh part of Lok Sabha polls on June 1, Modi mentioned Punjab and the Sikh group have all the time been on the forefront of national-building efforts, at the same time as he lambasted the present AAP authorities over problems with corruption and medicines commerce.
PM Modi raked up the delicate topic of the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara, which is revered by Sikhs since Guru Nanak Dev spent his closing years there. He accused the Congress of being the reason for the nation’s division, claiming they did it for their very own political acquire. Kartar Sahib is positioned in Punjab, Pakistan, a brief distance from the Indian border. That is the place the partition left it. “For 70 years, we might have a ‘darshan’ of the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara solely with binoculars,” Modi acknowledged.
In 1971, he claimed, “we had the trump card in our palms” when over 90,000 Pakistani troopers surrendered to the Indian Military, creating a possibility to retake the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara. “They (Congress) didn’t try this, however I did what I might,” Modi mentioned, referring to the Kartapur Sahib Hall, which opened in 2019 and made it simpler for Sikh pilgrims to journey to the shrine.
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Modi, who was campaigning for Preneet Kaur, the spouse of former chief minister Amarinder Singh and the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Patiala, mentioned he had come to hunt blessings within the land of Gurus “by bowing my head”. Different BJP candidates, together with Parampal Kaur Sidhu from Bathinda, Arvind Khanna from Sangrur, Hans Raj Hans from Faridkot, and Gejja Ram Valmiki from Fatehgarh Sahib, have been additionally on stage as Modi spoke, sporting conventional Sikh turbans.
PM mentioned that Punjab has led the nation in a wide range of sectors, together with agriculture and trade. Nonetheless, the present “fiercely corrupt” Bhagwant Mann authorities has altered all of that, he added. “Commerce and trade are leaving Punjab, whereas the drug commerce expands. “Your complete state authorities is in debt.
The prime minister acknowledged that the federal government’s authority doesn’t apply right here whereas the sand and drug mafia, in addition to shooter gangs, rule. “All ministers are glad, and the ‘kagazi CM’ is continually marking his presence within the ‘Delhi darbar’. “Can such folks deliver improvement to Punjab?” He additionally criticised the AAP and the Congress for competing within the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi whereas opposing one another in Punjab.
“In Punjab, they struggle one another in elections simply to point out the folks. Delhi’s ‘fiercely corrupt get together’ and the get together liable for anti-Sikh riots are staging a struggle towards one another),” he mentioned.
Modi outlined steps taken by his authorities to learn the Sikh group, together with a tax exemption on supplies used to make ‘langar’ and a leisure of international donation norms for the Golden Temple. He added that his authorities had declared ‘Veer Baal Diwas’ to commemorate the martyrdom of the tenth Sikh Guru’s sons. He added that his authorities had introduced Sikh households and’saroops’ of Guru Granth Sahib from Afghanistan.
“I’ve blood relations with you,” Modi mentioned, noting that one in all Guru Gobind Singh’s ‘panj pyare’ (5 beloved ones) was from Gujarat. He acknowledged that whereas serving as Gujarat chief minister, he rebuilt a gurdwara the place the primary Sikh Guru Nanak Dev as soon as halted, which had been broken by an earthquake. “Modi would not do it for votes. “Modi’s head bows earlier than the sacrifices of Sikh Gurus,” he declared.
Persevering with his assault on the INDIA bloc, he acknowledged that “they neither have a pacesetter, nor an intent,” and that their fundamental purpose is to appease their voter base, whereas the BJP’s mantra is ‘Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas’.
