Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday redefined his decade-old poll campaign slogan against corruption ahead of the final phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing a rally at Barasat in North 24 Parganas, the Prime Minister said, “10 years ago when you had given me an opportunity, I had promised the entire country “na khaunga na khane dunga” (I will neither indulge in corruption nor allow anyone else to indulge in corruption)… in these 10 years, I did not allow even a single scam to happen at the national level. Now, Modi is giving another big guarantee to Bengal and the country at large. “Jisne khaya hai, usse bahar nikalunga, aur jiska khaya hai usko main lautaunga (Whoever took corrupt money, I will take it from them and will return it to those it was looted from).”
The Prime Minister also pledged that the BJP will examine the tainted I.N.D.I.A. bloc partners, including West Bengal’s Trinamul Congress.
“Each paisa from the heaps of money that have been recovered from the TMC will be accounted for. I am exploring legal steps to figure out how the money can be returned to those from whom it was looted. I have, so far, returned around Rs 17,000 crore to those it rightly belongs,” he said.
Warning the Opposition leaders, Modi said, “I will take out such an X-ray of these corrupt people and their black money and illicit income that their future generations will also think 100 times before indulging in corruption”.
Claiming that the TMC was spreading lies about the CAA, Modi said the TMC had tried to stop the CAA implementation for the politics of appeasement. But, Modi didn’t panic. “I only spoke about the implementation of the CAA at the right time. Even though they (TMC) got aggressive and threatened, the CAA was rolled out,” Modi added.
Asserting that many from the migrant communities got citizenship, Modi said, “Nothing was snatched from them. Instead, they have been honoured with the citizenship as sons and daughters of ‘Bharti Maa’. I congratulate the Matuas for this”.
Slamming the West Bengal Chief Minister for attacking the judiciary over the cancellation of all the OBC certificates issued post-2010, the Prime Minister said, “The court exposed the duplicity that the TMC gave to the OBC communities. The Calcutta High Court called the OBC entitlement to 77 castes of the Muslim community illegal and unconstitutional.”
This means TMC had looted the OBC rights, which the Constitution and parliament had given to lakhs of youth, to help the supporters of vote-jihad, he said while adding, “I am shocked at the questions being raised on the judges’ motive, legal system and judiciary of our country. I want to ask the TMC if they will now set their goons free after the judges!”
The Prime Minister also addressed another rally in the Jadavpur parliamentary seat and led a roadshow to Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral house from Shyambazar five-point crossing under Kolkata North constituency after visiting the house of Maa Sarada Devi in Bagbazar.
At Jadavpur, the Prime Minister said, “Good governance cannot be found in Bengal through either binoculars or microscopes”.
