Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed the Congress manifesto stated that the party, if elected to power, would distribute people’s property, land and gold among Muslims, citing former PM Manmohan Singh's statement about the minority community having the 'first claim' on the nation's assets.
He was addressing an election rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara.
Modi said the Congress had announced that it would conduct a survey to find out the property of individuals, gold owned by women, silver mostly owned by tribal families, and land and cash belonging to government employees and others, and redistribute it.
“Can you tolerate the government snatching your hard-earned money and property?” he asked.
Modi said, “Earlier, when their (Congress) government was in power, they had said that Muslims have the first right on the country's resources.”
The Prime Minister said the “urban Naxal” ideology of Congress would even deprive the women of their ‘mangalsutra’. “This urban-naxal mindset, my mothers and sisters, they will not even leave your 'Mangalsutra'. They can go to that level. The Congress manifesto says they will calculate the amount of gold that mothers and sisters have, get information about it and then distribute that property. They will distribute it to whom - Manmohan Singh's government had said that Muslims have the first right on the country's assets," said PM Modi.
Reacting to PM Modi’s speech, Mallikarjun Kharge wrote on X, “Today, Modi ji's desperate speech showed that INDIA is winning the first phase. What Modi ji said is definitely a hate speech, but it is also a deliberate ploy to divert attention.”
“The prime minister did today what he has got in the values of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.”
“Lying for power, making false references to things and making false allegations against opponents are the specialty of the Sangh and the BJP's training.”
“Our manifesto is for every Indian. It talks about equality for all. Talks about justice for all. The Nyaya Patra of Congress is based on the foundation of truth, but it seems that the chair of the dictator like Goebbels is now shaking," Mallikarjun Kharge wrote in Hindi on X.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said, “After facing disappointment in the first phase of voting, the level of lies of Narendra Modi has fallen so much that he now wants to divert the people from the issues as he is rattled”
“The trends of immense support for Congress' “revolutionary manifesto” have started emerging,” Rahul Gandhi posted in Hindi on X.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi wrote on X (previously Twitter), “Modi today called Muslims infiltrators and people with many children. Since 2002 till this day, the only Modi guarantee has been to abuse Muslims and get votes. If one is talking about the country’s wealth, one should know that under Modi’s rule the first right to India’s wealth has been of his wealthy friends. 1% of Indians own 40% of the country’s wealth. Common Hindus are made to fear Muslims while their wealth is being used to enrich others.”