Sikar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a dig at the Congress’ claim of six surgical strikes being conducted during the UPA tenure, saying the party is now trying to prove that such military actions were also undertaken during its term, which he dismissed as “strikes carried out on paper while sitting in AC rooms”.
Addressing a huge rally in Sikar in Rajasthan, Modi said that first, the UPA government ignored the strike carried out by the BJP, then opposed it and now, they are saying, me too, me too.” Congress is “confusing video games with such strikes,” he added.
He questioned what kind of strikes these were as neither the terrorists nor Pakistan or even the people of India knew about them.
Making light of the Congress’ claims, he said, “Only that party can carry out surgical strikes on paper while sitting in AC rooms. Initially, they claimed to have carried out three strikes while on Thursday, they increased this number and stretched it to six. In the coming days, they will say that they conducted surgical strikes daily”.
PM Modi on Friday addressed three rallies in Rajasthan, where he accused Congress for not acting tough against terrorism. “Only a ‘mazboot’ (strong) government can do so,” he said.
He also launched a veiled attack on Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over her interaction with some snake charmers while campaigning in Raebareli on Thursday.
“The fourth generation of the ‘naamdar family’ is even now projecting India as a land of snake charmers, while it is ‘mouse charmers’ now,” he charged, referring to the development of the IT sector.