400 seats needed to stop Muslims’ selection in cricket team: Modi
Hindutva leader blames Congress for Pakistan's creation in 1947
New Delhi: Narendra Modi continued to attack Muslims, asking for 400 seats to prevent the selection of Muslims in the Indian cricket team and finish reservations for backwards, tribals, and Dalits in India.
According to Kashmir Media Service, while campaigning in Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, Modi said, “The Congress’s intention is to give priority to minorities in sports as well. This means it will now decide who will be in and out of the cricket team on the basis of religion.”
He added, “I ask the Congress today, if this was what they wanted, why did they divide mother India into three pieces when it became independent in 1947?… They should have made the entire country into Pakistan in 1947 and erased all traces of India then and there. “I am saying this flatly today, and all the Congress people and those like them must listen carefully… As long as Modi is alive, he will not allow any attempt to erase India’s identity in the name of false secularism or pseudo-secularism.”
He continued to focus on the anti-Muslim theme, as he has since his campaign in Banswada, Rajasthan, steering clear from defending or mentioning his regime’s ten-year record in government. He went on to say that the Congress intends to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision on the Ram Mandir.
In a new twist to why ‘400 seats’ were necessary, Modi said in Dhar that he needs ‘400 seats’ so the Congress does not succeed in its purported plan to put the “Babri lock” on the temple in Ayodhya or bring back Article 370 in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
In Khargone and Dhar, Modi went to great lengths to counter the opposition’s charge that allegations that the slogan “400 paar” (Hindi for ‘beyond 400’) was aimed at abolishing the constitution.
He went on to say that Modi needs 400 seats so the Congress cannot put the ‘Babri lock’ on the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and revive Article 370.
Modi once again alleged that India is facing a ‘jihad’ threat from inside Pakistan, and “Congress people here have announced that people must do ‘vote jihad’ against Modi”. Without naming Muslims, he said, “That is, people of a special religion have been asked to unite and vote against Modi”.
