New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that fielding of Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blast case, as BJP candidate from Bhopal, was a symbolic answer to all those who had labelled the rich Hindu civilization as “terrorist” and asserted that “this symbol will prove costly for the Congress”. He said the Congress has worked with a certain “modus operandi” to create false narratives on incidents like the Samjhauta Express blast and death of Judge BH Loya.
While defending the fielding of Thakur, who is out on bail in the blast case, Modi asked why no such questions are being asked when Congress President Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi are contesting from Amethi and Rae Bareli constituencies, respectively, despite being on “bail”. One woman, that too a ‘Sadhvi’, was humiliated in such a manner,” he said in an interview to Times Now while answering a question on fielding of Thakur in the Lok Sabha elections.
“Samjhauta Express verdict came. What came out? Without any evidence, a rich civilization as old as 5000 years, which gave the message of ‘the whole world is one… You called such a civilization terrorist? To give a reply to all such people, this (fielding of Thakur) is a symbol and this symbol will cost the Congress dearly,” the Prime Minister added.
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He went on to add, “I have lived in Gujarat. I have understood the Congress modus operandi. It is like a film script. They locate something, then bring a villain and a hero and make a film. This is their modus operandi…It is part of that modus operandi.
” Because of the “same modus operandi” of the Congress, “all the encounters were presented like that (as fake)…. Justice Loya died a natural death but because of this kind of modus operandi, such a case was built as if he had been murdered. On the EVM issue also, they used the same modus operandi,” he charged. Attacking the Congress, he referred to Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
“Her son Rajiv said when a big tree falls, the earth shakes. After that thousands of Sikhs were massacred in Delhi. Was it not terrorism? Even after that, he (Rajiv Gandhi) was made the Prime Minister. A neutral media never asked any question with regard to that but is asking now,” Modi said. “Those who were eye witnesses to those killings were later made ministers.
One of them was recently made the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, against whom there have been allegations. Were they ever asked? Those who have been convicted are being hugged even in jail,” he said, and demanded, “Do they (Congress) have any right to raise questions?”
