Liar Pak now knows India’s might: Modi

TNN Bureau. Updated: 4/18/2019 12:10:13 PM Front Page

JAMMU: Pakistan which used to blackmail India on its so-called nuclear bomb, now knows our might after the surgical strikes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, adding that the country will take revenge for martyrdom of its soldiers in the strongest way possible.

Modi also asserted that appeal for peace would work only if issued by a strong country, and not a weaker one, even as he hit out a Congress proposing reviewing AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir.

Modi was addressing three poll rallies in his home state Gujarat.

At a campaign rally at Surendranagar, Modi referred to the surgical strikes and air strikes by India inside Pakistan in response to terrorist attacks in Uri and Pulwama.

"Earlier, terrorists from Pakistan would come here and go back after conducting an attack. Pakistan would threaten us, saying it has the nuclear bomb and will press the button (if India retaliated).

"We have nuclear of nuclear bombs (the mother of nuclear bombs). I decided to tell them, do whatever you want to do (but we will retaliate)," the prime minister said.

"In the past our people would weep, go around the world saying Pakistan did this, did that....It is now Pakistan's turn to weep.

"Didn't our jawans kill them by entering their houses? Shall we not kill them by entering their houses? Shall we not take revenge for our martyred soldiers?" he asked the large crowd which replied in the positive.

"Today is Mahavir Jayanti, the day to observe peace.

But when shall we have peace? Will anyone listen to a weak man making an appeal for peace or to the warning of a strong man who can flex his mussels? Only the peace appeal of a strong man will be respected, not that of a weak person," Modi said.

He also alleged that the Congress spoke ill of the armed forces.

"You must have seen how the character of the Congress party has changed in this election. The way the Congress spreads lies, and questions the country's military, saying its seniors are street goons, the Air Force chief is a liar...If you say something like this, will it not make Pakistan happy?" he said.

Modi also slammed the Congress for seeking proof of action against terrorists.

"When we conducted the surgical strike, Congress questioned us. When we conducted the air strike, it asked for proof. Do you (Congress) trust your own sons or Pakistan's rhetoric?" the prime minister said.

The PM hit out at the Congress for promising to abolish sedition law and reviewing the AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) if it came to power.

"It wants to strengthen stone-pelters and ensure that the "tukde tukde (nation-breaking) gang" can easily chalk out a conspiracy to disintegrate the country," Modi said.

He said when dynastic rule becomes the "sole vision", then they (Congress) resort to hurling abuses.

Modi said the Congress insulted attires of people from the north-eastern states and linked Hindus to terror.

Later, at a poll rally at Anand, Modi claimed that the Congress always insulted Sardar Patel and is now crushing his ideology too.

"Congress has stomachache as the world's tallest statue is that of Patel," Modi said.

Had Sardar Patel been the first prime minister of India, the country's situation would have been different, Modi said.


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