I understand your josh: PM Modi to India
Deccan ChronicleNew Delhi/Churu : A day after he inaugurated the emotive, solemn and stately National War Memorial dedicated to slain soldiers of Independent India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed the nation from an election rally in Churu, Rajasthan, to flex the taut muscles of a “new India” fashioned under his leadership, and both assured and boasted, repeatedly, that the “country is in safe hands”. “Desh surakshit haathon mein hai,” Mr Modi said often in his speech. Mr Modi, who began and ended his speech by asking people to clench their fists, raise both their hands and chant “Bharat Mata ki Jai”, kept weaving in words like “shakti”, “veer saput”, “mamata” to keep on topic and create moments to ask the audience rhetorical questions. National Conference leader Omar Abdullah tweeted that if the airstrikes took place in “Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it is a major incursion and a significant strike by the IAF planes… However, if it’s Bala Kote in Poonch sector, along the LoC, it’s a largely symbolic strike because at this time of the year forward launch pads and militant camps are empty and non-functional.”