Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday virtually inaugurated the new integrated terminal building (NITB) of the Veer Savarkar International Airport at Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Tuesday, officials said. The PM also took a dig at the Maha Opposition meet in Bengaluru and called it as 'Kattar Bhrashtachar Sammelan.' Top leaders of 26 opposition parties are brainstorming in Bengaluru on July 17-18. They are likely to start the work on a common minimum programme and announce a joint agitational plan to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Terming the agenda of the meet as 'Family first', the PM without naming the Gandhi family said, "If someone is out on bail in 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..."
PM top quotes:
- 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. There is a guarantee of poison of casteism and immense corruption at their shops. Now, they are in Bengaluru.
- People of the country say that this is a 'Kattar Bhrashtachar Sammelan'
- 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..."
- 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.
- 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