PM suggests NCP (SP), Sena (UBT) to join hands with Shinde and Ajit

Sahrad Pawar says won't ally with those who don't believe in parliamentary democracy

HYDERABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday suggested the NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT) to consider aligning with Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde post-Lok Sabha elections. In response to this, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar said that parliamentary democracy is under threat because of the Prime Minister, and he won’t ally with those who do not believe in it.

Modi also launched yet another frontal attack on the Congress, alleging that the party is “anti-Hindu’’ and dubbed its track record as that of “loot, appeasement and dynasty first”.

PM Modi, who addressed election rallies in Hyderabad and Mahabubnagar Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana, expressed confidence that “those who opposed CAA, UCC and those who talk of ‘vote jihad’ will be defeated on June 4” when the results of the Lok Sabha polls are declared.

Targeting the Congress on reservations, Modi alleged that the national party knows religion-based reservations are unconstitutional.

Referring to Rahul Gandhi mockingly as ‘shehzade’ (prince) of Congress, he said the Congress leader started off with “’mohabbat ki dukaan’ before polls which lost steam as elections approached”, and is now “poisoning society by speaking of supporting the ‘tukde-tukde gang’”. 

In a veiled reference to Congress leader Sam Pitroda’s recent remarks, he said the ‘shehzade’s advisor’ who lives in America described South Indian people as looking like Africans, which the PM claimed implied that Telangana people look like Africans.