Lunawada
Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued with his attack on the Congress today, this time claiming that another senior Congress leader had insulted the people of Gujarat by questioning his parentage.

Addressing a campaign rally for the second phase of polls, Modi alleged that Congress worker Salman Nizami questioned his ancestry.

“The Congress leaders are crossing all limits day by day. They are insulting the son of the soil. Does it not hurt the pride of Gujarat?” Modi asked people.

Addressing election meetings at Lunawada, Bodeli, Anand and Mehsana today, Modi said, “Nizami is asking who are my father and mother. I ask you brothers and sisters, do we talk in such language with even an enemy? Now I’ll tell you about him. He is originally a person from Azad Kashmir. Will you give your vote to such Azad Kashmiris?”

However, the Congress claimed that Nizami was an office secretary of the party in one of the districts in Jammu and Kashmir “years ago” and since long had seized to be even a member of the Congress and no person of such name had been sent for campaigning in the state.

Nizami, he claimed, had also termed the Indian Army as “rapists” and threatened that “every household in Kashmir would give birth to one Afzal Guru”.

Replying to Nizami’s tweet, Modi said he regarded India as his “father and mother” and he would sacrifice his life for the service of the people and nation.

Modi said the Congress was not only misleading the Patels and other upper caste communities by making “false promises” on reservation benefits, it was also “manufacturing lies” to defame his government at the Centre.

Insisting that reservation beyond 50 per cent was not possible under the constitution, Modi asked the Congress to “stop fooling the people” and recounted how the Congress denied the constitutional status to the commission for the Other Backward Classes.