Punjab, May 26: Union Minister of Home and Cooperation Amit Shah today addressed a massive rally at Ludhiana in Punjab.
Speaking at the rally Shah said that without Punjab the nation could not have remained secure and the hunger of the nation could not have been satisfied. Whether it is an attack by Aurangzeb or Pakistan, the soldiers that emerged from Punjab have always protected India. Guru Teg Bahadur Ji made the supreme sacrifice for the Kashmiri Hindus. This is a message to the people who want to create divisions between the Hindus and Sikhs.
“We have always said that we Hindus survive because of the 9th Guru of the Sikhs. Maharaja Ranjit Singh equally protected the honour of the nation,” he said.
Shah said that in the five phases of the election held till now, Modi Ji has already won 310 seats. In the sixth and seventh phases, Modi Ji will cross the 400 mark.
Campaigning for the party candidate Ravneet Singh Bittu Shah said that the murderers of his grandfather stand no chance of being forgiven.
“On the fourth of June, Modi Ji will be elected with 400 seats. On the 1st of June Kejriwal will go to jail and on the 6th of June Rahul Ji will go on foreign vacation,” he jibed.
He added that on one hand there is Rahul Baba who goes on a foreign vacation at the slightest increase in temperature. He goes on foreign vacation every six months. But on the other, there is Modi Ji who has not taken a leave for the last 23 years and he spends Diwali with the soldiers on the border. On one hand, there are the Congress and AAP which are allies outside Punjab but bay for each other's blood in Punjab. I want to ask them when they are allies in Delhi, Gujarat and Haryana then why are they wrestling in Punjab?” he asked.
Shah said that they are involved in Rs.12 lakh crore scams. On the other hand, Modi Ji has been the chief minister and the prime minister for 23 years but no one can raise a finger at him.
“They are talking about Hindus and Sikhs only to win the election. They should learn from Narendra Modi who built the Kartarpur Corridor and also the Ram Temple. I want to tell you today that had the BJP been there during the independence of the nation then the Kartarpur Corridor and the Karatrpur Gurudwara would be in India. Modi Ji has rightly observed that India would have got the Kartarpur Sahib had we asked for it after our victory in the 1971 war. But the leadership did not remember to do that. For years after the missed opportunity the Hindus and the Sikhs had been demanding the Kartarpur Corridor. But this demand too fell on a deaf ear. But it is Modi Ji who fulfilled this demand,” he said
He said that the Congress hindered the building of the Ram Temple for 70 years. But Modi Ji won the case, laid the foundation and consecrated the temple. Along with the Kartarpur Corridor, the Ram Temple Modi Ji also rebuilt the Kashi Vishwanath temple once pillaged by Aurangzeb and the Somnath Temple is being built with gold again.
“Congress people try to frighten us by saying that Pakistan has atom bombs and hence we should not talk about PoK. I want to tell Rahul Baba that we are BJP people and are not afraid of atom bombs. PoK belongs to India and we will take it back,” he said.
“We have introduced the CAA to give citizenship to the Sikhs and Hindus who have fled persecution in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The Congress and the AAP are opposing it. They welcome infiltrators with red carpet and resist citizenship to refugees,” he said.
“Since the time of Indira Gandhi, the soldiers and their families have been demanding one rank-one pension. But the Congress never fulfilled that demand. However, Modi Ji paid them Rs.1.20 lakh crore fulfilling their demand,” he said
“I am saying with immense responsibility that the Congress party has always hurt Punjab. During independence, it was hurt by the partition, allowed terrorism to crop up, and Sikh genocide was also conducted by the Congress. Even today Congress is supporting separatism. The Congress and the AAP are pushing Punjab into the hellfire of drugs. I want to tell it from my heart that my heart aches to see Punjab youths in addiction. We have created the entire infrastructure to fight this scourge. We have built an NCB office here which will be functional in Modi 3.0. I want to tell you that in Modi 3.0 we will uproot the drug menace in Punjab. We will not let Punjab lurk in the abyss of drug addiction and not let it burn in the fire of terrorism. It is my promise to the people of Punjab we will not spare anyone who is trying to push Punjab into the fire of terrorism,” he warned.
“Kejriwal has made Punjab the ATM for corruption. He even derives the money required to fight the case in court from Punjab. He uses the credit card with the name of Mann to contest elections. We have seen the stature of Punjab’s chief minister. But today the Punjab chief minister has turned into Kejriwal’s pilot carrying him to and fro. It is now getting difficult to distinguish between the Punjab chief minister and Kejriwal’s pilot,” he mocked.
Shri Shah said, “No other prime minister of India ever honoured Sikhism and Guru Parampara like Narendra Modi. Modi Ji announced the 26th of December as the Veer Bal Divas commemorating the sacrifice of the two Sahibzaades built the Kartarpur Sahib corridor with Rs120 crore, celebrated the 550th Prakash Parv of Guru Nanak Saheb, 350th Prakash Parv of Guru Govind Singh Ji, issued postage stamp, made Sultanpur Lodhi heritage city, built Amritsar as heritage city, opened FCRA for Sri Darbar Sahib, waived of GST from langar and temple Prasad, paid compensation to the victims of the Sikh riots and also got the culprits punished.”
“The AAP government is a government that is infamous for breaching promises. They told about paying Rs. 1000 to every woman, about making Punjab drug-free in one month, and about opening 16 medical colleges, but fulfilled none of them,” he said. Shah also said referring to Bhagwant Mann that performing comedy is one thing and reforming Punjab is another. This is not his cup of tea. The AAP has tarnished Punjab’s honor by taking more than Rs. 50,000 crore in loans and increasing the per capita loans on the people of Punjab. The Ayushman Bharat scheme is not being implemented in Punjab because they are not making the payment. The Punjab government is a Jholachaap government that distributes the rice issued by the Modi government in a jhola or a bag with Kejriwal’s tag on it. But they cannot fool the people of Punjab with a jhola. Every state that has a double-engine government has been developed no matter how difficult its problems are. Punjab will also take the same path once a double-engine government is formed.