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Ajmer (Rajasthan): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday alleged that the Congress opposed the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya due to its “anger” towards Lord Ram.
Addressing an election rally here, Modi said, “Opposing the visit to the consecration of Ram temple? Is it appropriate? Not only this, if someone visited, he was expelled from the Congress party for six years. Can this happen in this country, can you imagine the country without Lord Ram?”
“So much anger for Lord Ram, I am unable to fathom… Lord Ram has got a permanent abode. Ram Navami is coming and people are going to celebrate. Let’s see how much you will oppose it,” Modi said referring to the festival marking the birth of Lord Ram that will fall on April 17 this year.
Top Congress leaders had declined the invite to the January 22 ceremony in Ayodhya, with the opposition party saying it was an RSS-BJP event and that the saffron outfits have made a political project of the Ram temple.
Stepping up his attack on the Congress on the issue of corruption, Modi on Saturday the opposition party is in panic as he has shut their “shop of loot” and it was holding rallies not to win the elections but to save the corrupt.
He called the Congress a party of “dynasts and corrupt” that is bereft of both principles and policies.
“Wherever there is Congress, there cannot be any development. The Congress never thought about the poor, marginalised and youths,” he said.
Modi said, “These big names (Naamdar) of the country, the big names of Congress and the royal family abuse this worker (Kaamdar). Perhaps they consider it their right to abuse. This worker can digest every abuse.
“They are angry with Modi because today Modi is standing like a rock with the rural poor. These people considered looting public money as their ancestral right. Modi has given a permanent cure to this disease of loot. Modi has pulled down the shutter of their shop of loot. That’s why they are in panic.”
“The arrogant alliance of Congress is upset with Modi, that is why it gets angry and abuses. But, Congress people should understand that the more mud you throw, the more the lotus (BJP’s election symbol) will bloom.”
Modi said the Congress party is holding rallies not to win the elections, but to to save the corrupt.
“Modi’s fight against corruption will continue,” he said, adding the third term of his government is not far and the government is going to take even bigger decisions against corruption in the first 100 days.