Situation in India prior to 2014 similar to Sri Lanka, says Modi in Nashik

Shiv Kumar
Tribune News Service
Mumbai, April 22

The situation in India prior to 2014 was similar to Sri Lanka’s where a series of bomb blasts on Easter Sunday claimed 290 lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Nashik on Monday.

“Bomb blasts happened in Sri Lanka yesterday. Hundreds of people were killed on the auspicious occasion of Easter. People were killed while they were praying to their God..... Wasn’t the situation similar to that in India before 2014? There were bomb blasts in Mumbai, Pune, Gujarat.....,” the prime minister said at the rally while the audience mobilised by the BJP chanted “Modi, Modi”.

Attacking the Congress and the NCP, Modi said the two parties only conducted condolence meetings and went crying around the world when Pakistan carried out terror attacks in India.

“After this Chowkidar came to power, we attacked the terror factories in Pakistan. There is terrorism in only a few places in Jammu and Kashmir. And our security forces are killing terrorists every day,” Modi said.

Modi went on to say that he could not sit still like his predecessor after a terror attack.

“Would you have forgiven me if I behaved like Manmohan Singh after the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai,” Modi asked.

Modi, who began his address in Marathi before switching to Hindi, went on to claim that the BJP was ahead in the first two phases of the elections that have been completed so far.

The PM went on to say that the government was concerned about the problems of agriculturists in the region.

“The government is working on reducing the cost of transporting and storing onions. We will soon put an end to middlemen who exploit the farmers and the consumers,” Modi said.