While the mega opposition meeting began in Bengaluru, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on Opposition parties and said "hardcore corrupts" are meeting in Bengaluru today. Modi is inaugurating the New Integrated Terminal Building of Veer Savarkar International Airport in Port Blair, via video conferencing.
Taking a jibe at the opposition unity meetings, Prime Minister Modi said, "...Today, people of the country have already decided to bring us back in 2024. So, people who are responsible for the plight of India have opened their shops...24 ke liye 26 hone waale rajnaitik dalon par ye bada fit baith'ta hai," referring to the 26 opposition parties who will be participating in the Bengaluru meeting today.
He further claimed that the opposition doesn't speak about the violence during West Bengal Panchayat Elections. "They are singing some other song but the reality is something else. A label of something else has been put up but the product is someone else's. There is a guarantee of poison of casteism and immense corruption at their shops. Now, they are in Bengaluru...," he said.
Modi also alleged that for dynastic political parties, "it is family first, nation nothing." "In democracy, it is of the people, by the people and for the people. But for the dynastic political parties, it is of the family, by the family and for the family. Family first, nation nothing. This is their motto... There is hatred, corruption and appeasement politics. The country is a victim of the fire of dynastic politics. For them, only their family's growth matters not that of the poor in the country...." he said.
He further claimed that people who are out on bail despite being accused of corruption, are given 'respect', by the 'meeting'. "Another speciality of this meeting is that if someone is out on bail in a corruption of crores of Rupees, they are seen with great respect. If the entire family is out on bail, they are more honoured...If someone insults a community and is punished by the court, he is honoured...," he said.
Top leaders of 26 opposition parties will gather for the second of such huddles in Bengaluru today. On their agenda is to come up with a common structure, formula for seat-sharing and a formal name for the anti-BJP grouping in a bid to forge unity ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
(This is a developing story. More details are awaited.)
