Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said his government managed to contain militancy to only “two and a half” districts in Jammu and Kashmir and that no bomb blast took place elsewhere in the country in last five years.
Addressing a poll rally at Amreli in Gujarat, Modi also saidthat what he learnt in Gujarat helped him during the long Doklam standoff withChina in 2017.
Referring to various incidents of bomb blasts in the countrypreviously, he said, “In the last five years no bomb blast took place inany other part of the country.” He said that the BJP government managed tocontain militancy to just two and a half districts in Jammu and Kashmir.
On Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s statement of tryingto approach India after the Balakot air strike, Modi said the leader “hadto make a public plea to us to pick up the phone”.
Hitting out at the previous Congress-led governments in thecountry, he said had the Sardar Sarovar project been completed 40 years ago,Gujarat would have been much better.
In 2014, the Congress came to its lowest tally afterIndependence and in 2019, it is fighting on the lowest number of Lok Sabhaseats but still “dreaming” of becoming the ruling party, he said.
Modi also said that the tallest statue of Sardar Patel builtin Gujarat was not intended to disrespect late prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
This is not an election rally for me, but a rally to saythanks to people of Gujarat for the grooming I received here,” he said.