Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday led BJP in attacking the opposition for "communalising" the ongoing assembly elections. While the PM slammed Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress for working on a strategy that sought to divide Hindu votes in the Goa assembly polls, Union minister for minority affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi lodged a complaint against Punjab Congress leader Sunil Jhakhar for his statement that a Hindu can never become chief minister of Punjab.
Speaking at a rally in Kanpur Dehat on Monday, Modi said, "Is this democracy?... Is this secularism? You tend to divide Hindu votes. So, whose votes you want to gather... This discrimination... is this the language of a democratic set up," he asked. Modi exhorted the people of Goa to "bury such politics".
He also said that not only the Election Commission but also the people of Goa and other states where assembly elections are ongoing should take cognizance of this statement.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday led BJP in attacking the opposition for "communalising" the ongoing assembly elections.
While the PM slammed Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress for working on a strategy that sought to divide Hindu votes in the Goa assembly polls, Union minister for minority affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi lodged a complaint against Punjab Congress leader Sunil Jhakhar for his statement that a Hindu can never become chief minister of Punjab.
Speaking at a rally in Kanpur Dehat on Monday, Modi said, "Is this democracy?... Is this secularism? You tend to divide Hindu votes. So, whose votes you want to gather... This discrimination... is this the language of a democratic set up," he asked. Modi exhorted the people of Goa to "bury such politics".
He also said that not only the Election Commission but also the people of Goa and other states where assembly elections are ongoing should take cognizance of this statement.
Trinamool Congress MP and party in charge for Goa, Mahua Moitra in an interview to TOI had claimed that one of the strategies of her party was to break the consolidation of Hindu votes with the intent to give a blow to the ruling BJP.
(With inputs from agencies)
Trinamool Congress MP and party in charge for Goa, Mahua Moitra in an interview to TOI had claimed that one of the strategies of her party was to break the consolidation of Hindu votes with the intent to give a blow to the ruling BJP.
(With inputs from agencies)