NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday defended Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial remarks that the opposition termed as communally divisive.
BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia told reporters that PM Modi only echoed people’s sentiments by calling a spade a spade. Bhatia said the opposition is in pain as Modi has shown them the mirror about its past.
Prime Minister Modi drew backlash from the opposition parties for his remarks at an election rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara where he alleged that the Congress plans to give people’s hard-earned money and valuables to “infiltrators” and “those who have more children”.
Bhatia, however, asserted that Modi’s remarks have resonated with people as for the opposition INDIA bloc those who have illegally entered the country are more important than citizens if they happen to be Muslims.
To be sure, a 2006 PMO clarification available in the archives showed that the government at the time had clarified that the former PM Singh had said that all underprivileged sections needed to be uplifted and therefore had the first right to resources.
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