Narendra Modi highlights Opposition name-calling in bid for votes; development, national security take backseat at recent rallies
FirstpostVirus, Bhasmasur, Dawood Ibrahim-equivalent, Hitler, death merchant, rabid monkey, rat, insect — these are the terms that, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress leaders have associated with him in the past. Virus, Bhasmasur, Dawood Ibrahim-equivalent, Hitler, death merchant, rabid monkey, rat and insect: these are the terms that, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress leaders have associated with him in the past. Among the other charges levelled by Modi at the Fatehabad and Kurukshetra rallies were: the Congress recommended Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s name for the Nobel peace prize, its leaders referred to the Indian Army chief as “galli ka gunda” and the air force head as a “jhoota”, and the ‘mahamilawati’ grand alliance were insulting Ramayana and Mahabharata “day and night”. At the Wednesday rallies, Modi did mention his government’s efforts to designate Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist at the United Nations, and the “free hand” given to armed forces which is letting them strike deep inside Pakistan to kill terrorists among other relevant topics.