New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to Dalits, tribals, and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) to stay united. Coining the slogan “Ek hai toh safe hai (Together, we are safe),” Modi also targeted the Opposition over a Jammu and Kashmir Assembly resolution seeking dialogue for restoration of special status and constitutional guarantees.
He asserted that no power in the world would be able to restore Article 370. Targeting the Congress for “pitting one caste against another”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched the BJP’s Maharashtra Assembly election campaign from north Maharashtra.
At public meetings in Dhule and Nashik, he said, “If STs (Scheduled Tribes), SCs (Scheduled Castes), and OBCs stay united, the politics of Congress will be over.” “The Congress has become parasitic and is surviving on crutches. It can contest polls only with the support of other parties, it cannot stand on its own and hence to survive, it has resorted to its oldest tactic of dividing SCs, STs, and OBCs by sowing seeds of discord among them to weaken their unity,” Modi said.
“Since Nehru’s time, the Congress and his family opposed reservation and now their fourth generation ‘Yuvraj (Rahul Gandhi)’ is working for caste divisions. The Congress fears OBC unity because when OBCs are united, the Congress loses and hence the party wants to create animosity and conflict among the castes falling under the OBC category,” he added. Modi said with the blessings of the OBCs, an OBC is Prime Minister for the third time, and the Congress cannot accept this.
Modi said the Opposition party was playing a ‘dangerous game of dividing castes and communities’.
Notably, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath first coined the ‘batoge to katoge’ slogan in the aftermath of attack on Hindus in Bangladesh in August this year.
