Gurdaspur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today renewed his attack against the Congress on a variety of issues ranging from the Kartarpur Sahib corridor to the 1984 riots and from farmers’ loan waivers to corruption while addressing his first public rally of 2019 in Gurdaspur.
PM Modi began his critique of the Congress saying that when Partition happened, it failed to ensure that the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara was a part of India. Reiterating what he had said earlier, he said the “NDA government took the historic decision to build Kartarpur Corridor, which the Congress should have done long ago”.
“We had been separated from that land 60 years ago. The government in power at that time couldn’t retain it with India. Keeping in mind the sentiments of the people of the country, we had decided to build the Kartarpur corridor,” he said. Saying that the Congress party wanted to sing odes to only one party he accused it of trying to weaken the country’s defence forces by spreading lies.
Referring to Sajjan Kumar, who was convicted and sentenced to life in imprisonment, he played on Sajjan Kumar’s name and said that the country wants Congress leaders punished for 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
“The files of some of the accused who had been described as sajjan (gentleman) were suppressed at the behest of one family. The NDA government pulled out those files, formed SITs and the results are in front of you,” he said.