Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday claimed that the opposition to him was turning “increasingly violent”, PTI reported. He added that this was because people born in backward castes were in the country’s top positions and because the Bharatiya Janata Party was gaining in strength.
Modi was speaking to party workers via his NaMo app to mark the BJP’s 38th Foundation Day. “You would have seen that the opposition is becoming more intense and angrier. It is being seen now that it is turning more violent as well,” Modi said. “The reason is not that we have made any mistake. The only reason is that our rivals are unable to digest the BJP’s rising strength.”
“They are unable to accept that the son of a poor mother can become [the] prime minister,” Modi claimed. He added that the Opposition was unable to accept that the BJP had become a party of the poor by having the most number of MPs and MLAs from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Modi claimed that while the National Democratic Alliance was known for “win after win”, the Congress-led Opposition’s agenda was “remove Modi, snatch his chair”, and its identity was “lie after lie”.
The prime minister advised BJP workers to be active on social media to prevent “anti-national and anti-social elements” from taking over. However, he told them to only put up “true and correct information”.
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