Modi said while the BJP was committed to the upliftment of the poor and focused on national security, parties like Akhilesh Yadav’s SP are “kind to terrorists”.
“I kept my silence for so many years after the court hearing in the Ahmedabad serial blasts case,” he said. “Today, I am mentioning this because these political parties are only shielding terrorists to protect their vote bank, which is a very dangerous pattern,” the PM said.
“Serial blasts happened when I was the CM of Gujarat. I will never forget the day the earth turned red with the blood of the victims. Tears were not taking the name of stopping. I picked up the soil soaked in blood and vowed that my government will track these terrorists from the underworld and punish them. Modi tried to link the SP’s election symbol cycle with the terrorist attacks, reminding the crowd that there was a blast at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital on July 26, 2008 and that Indian Mujahideen attackers had placed explosives on cycles. Have you seen the election symbol of SP? In the initial blasts, all the bombs were planted on bicycles. I am very surprised, why did he use a cycle?” He also accused the then SP government of withdrawing cases against terrorists responsible for 14 attacks in the state.
“In 2006, there was an explosion in the Sankat Mochan temple of Varanasi and Kashi railway station. But after the SP came to power, it decided to quash the case against one of the accused. Shamim Ahmadi in 2013. Similarly, in 2007, there was a blast in the Lucknow court premises, but the SP government tried to withdraw the case against the accused. Tariq Qasmi, However, the court did not allow this to happen and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The PM also hit out at the Congress leadership, claiming that they would refer to Osama bin Laden as “Osama ji”. He mentioned the Congress veteran salman khurshidpublicly claim that Sonia Gandhi Weeping after seeing the pictures of dead bodies of IM members killed in Batla House encounter with Delhi Police.
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur Undated picture of father of Ahmedabad terrorist criminal Mohammad Saif caught Shahbad Ahmadi SP chief Akhilesh further questioned whether the latter was meant to “feed him biryani”. Thakur claimed that Ahmed was an SP functionary.
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