New Delhi: The country’s Opposition alliance wants to destroy the traditions of Sanatana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday, amid a raging controversy over a DMK leader’s recent call for its eradication.
In Madhya Pradesh’s Bina on Thursday, where he launched projects worth Rs 50,700 crores, the Prime Minister said the Opposition’s newly-formed bloc INDIA would soon expand their attack beyond Sanatana to the people.
“These people want to break into pieces Sanatana, which has held India together for thousands of years. All Sanatanis across the country and those who love this country will have to be alert. We have to stop such people,” Modi said.
Modi also called the INDIA bloc a leaderless “INDIA alliance”. He told the large gathering in Bina: “At a time Bharat is emerging as a world leader in global forums, Some parties are trying to divide the country and its people. These people came together to form an INDI alliance. Some are calling them ‘ghamandiya (arrogant)’. There is a lot of suspense on who would lead them into next year’s Lok Sabha elections. They are working with a hidden agenda, which is to attack India’s culture.”
He added this bloc adopted a resolution in its last meeting in Mumbai to “end the Sanatana culture” in the county.
#WATCH | Bina, Madhya Pradesh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says "The people of this INDIA alliance want to erase that 'Sanatana Dharma' which gave inspiration to Swami Vivekananda and Lokmanya Tilak…This INDIA alliance wants to destroy 'Sanatana Dharma'. Today they have openly… pic.twitter.com/wc0C2hBxtS
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Modi also slammed poll-bound Madhya Pradesh’s previous Congress government, saying it left the state and its people high and dry.
“The Congress, which ruled this state for decades, crippled it economically. Bundelkhand was desperate for water, electricity and roads. Under the BJP, roads have been built in every village and electricity provided to every household,” he said after inaugurating a petrochemical complex in the Bina Refinery and 10 other industrial projects across the state.