PM Modi brought Pakistan to knees, nation must congratulate him: Yogi Adityanath
Star campaigner and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s 20-minute address at a rally in Kandivli on Thursday clearly bore out BJP plans to whip up patriotic frenzy by using Article 370 as the poll plank.
PM Narendra Modi has brought Pakistan to its knees by scrapping Article 370, he said. “Pakistan PM Imran Khan has become an object of pity and ridicule in the international arena. He doesn’t know when a surgical strike will hit his country,” he said at Thakur Complex.
That Article 370 will be the poll plank was laid down by Amit Shah before the polls were announced. Modi’s popularity will be factored in too to woo voters, sources in the party said.
“Modiji has deepened India’s territorial integrity and unity by doing away with the contentious article. The PM is held in high esteem in the comity of nations because of this step… The entire nation should congratulate PM Modi and home minister Amitji Shah for the historic decision,” Adityanath said amid applause and cries of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’. He was on a day’s visit to Maharashtra to address poll meetings in Nanded, Jalgaon and Mumbai.
His deputy, Keshav Maurya, addressing a rally for BJP’s Ganpat Gaikwad in Kalyan, said voting for BJP will be like ‘nuking’ Pakistan. He said Modi had taken a bold step by de-fanging Article 370 and the nation can show its support by delivering a huge majority for BJP.
After taking potshots at Rahul Gandhi, he said Modi had blended development with good governance and national sentiments. “Ending poverty, curbing separatism and Naxalism, upholding values of social justice and offering good governance to people is Modiji’s idea of development,” he added.
