Accusing Congress of “trying to hide in the bunker of secularism”, Narendra Modi today said that it was fighting for its survival with even a 100-seat mark in the new Lok Sabha appearing “an uphill task for it”.
Reacting sharply to Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s accusation that his election campaign was a “dangerous combination of religious fanaticism, power and money”, the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate said, “faced with certain defeat, fighting for its survival it is once again trying to hide in the bunker of secularism.
“Its last hope is to somehow cross the 100-seat mark which now appears an uphill task for it,” Modi told PTI.
Responding to Sonia’s dig that he was promising to make India a paradise, he said, “I have never claimed that I will make India a paradise and that I have solutions to all problems. I am sure even people do not expect this from me.”
People of India were not looking forward to miracles but “they certainly deserve a stable, decisive and sensitive government,” he said.
Asked about recent attacks on him by Priyanka Gandhi who had accused him of humiliating her family and husband Robert Vadra, the BJP leader said that as a daughter and sister she has a right to campaign for her mother and her brother.
“It is natural that a daughter would like to defend her mother. A sister would like to defend her brother. I do not have any problems with that,” Modi said.
Anwsering a question on how allegations against Vadra would be dealt with in the event of his coming to power, the BJP leader said that he did not believe in politics of vendetta and witch-hunting of which he had been a “victim” for the last ten years.
At the same time, nobody was above law and if somebody had done something wrong, the law must take its own course. “But that has to happen in an institutional manner as per the due process without interference from any quarter. Such actions should never be guided by political considerations.
–PTI