In Chitradurga, PM Modi exhorts voters to remember soldiers, farmers

Chitradurga: All eyes were on Chitradurga as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to address a huge gathering. And when he arrived, he did not miss out on an opportunity to catch the pulse and impulse of the town as he began his speech in Kannada and wished citizens a happy Ugadi.

Once that was done, Modi trained his guns at the Congress-JD(S) ruling government. Reiterating that HD Kumaraswamy is a remote-controlled chief  minister, Modi went on to add it was the members of these two parties who do not respect the martyrdom of the soldiers or the achievements of the scientists.

Emphasising that the two parties – the JD(S) and Congress – were not functioning in harmony, Modi used it as an example to drive home the point that instability would set in if such a coalition would run the country.

He was not done yet. Impressing upon the gathering that the Congress was a party that always worked towards splitting people, he touched upon the point of how the Congress wanted to create a separate Lingayat religion a few years ago.

Explaining what his government had done in the last five years, Modi said that his government had provided gas connections, trying to include every stratum of society in the progress of the nation.

Exhorting the first-time voters to exercise their franchise, Modi urged them to cast their vote in the name of soldiers who have laid down their lives for the country, in the name of water being supplied to a myriad farmers, in the name of the Indian Air Force (IAF) which undertook the strikes on Balakot and vote neither for the local MP nor for the prime minister but for a government that would provide not just stability but also take the country forward.

Modi will address another gathering in Mysuru this evening.

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