Modi steps on gas to stop Oppn from 'robbing' people

PM GOES BALLISTIC IN FOUR RALLIES ACROSS TWO STATES

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the opposition parties wanted to win the Lok Sabha election to bring religion-based reservation while he sought 400 seats to stop them from snatching the quotas of Dalits and Other Backward Classes.

At election rallies in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, he also pitched himself as the "chowkidar" (watchman) and a "wall" to protect people from alleged Congress plans to "rob" people - either through "redistribution" of wealth or imposition of an inheritance taxif the INDIA came to power.

He suggested the Congress and the Samajwadi Party intended to give away a chunk from reservation in jobs and education meant for the SCs, STs and OBCs to their own "vote bank".

Modi reminded that then PM Manmohan Singh in 2006 said the minorities, particularly Muslims, have the "first claim" to the country's resources. "The SP, Congress and their INDI alliance can go to any extent for appeasement... there is uproar in the country due to the dangerous intentions of the Congress. The dangerous 'panja' (hand) is going to snatch the rights of the countrymen again," he said. His attack on the INDIA group took place at a series of election rallies - in Morena in MP, and Agra, Bareilly and Shahjahanpur in UP.

At Aonla in Bareilly, he claimed the Congress not only wanted to conduct an economic survey but also survey institutions and offices.