'Won't Be Fit For Public Life If I Start Doing Hindu-Muslim': PM Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said he won’t be fit for public life if he starts playing the Hindu-Muslim card. In an exclusive interview with News18 during his visit to Varanasi to file his nomination for Lok Sabha election 2024, PM Modi said it was his resolve to not do Hindu-Muslim. PM Modi filed his nomination as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Varanasi for Lok Sabha Polls. Varanasi is set to vote in the sixth phase of polls on June 1.

When asked whether Muslims will vote for him this election, the Prime Minister said, “I believe that the people of the country will vote for me. The day I start doing Hindu-Muslim, I won’t be fit to live in public life. I will not do Hindu-Muslim divide, this is my resolve.”

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The Prime Minister further gave an example to explain how he would treat every person of the country equally irrespective of their caste or religion. “If I give a house, I am talking about saturation, 100 per cent delivery. This means, suppose there are 200 houses in a village – irrespective of which society, which caste, which religion – if there are 60 lakh Indians in those 200 houses, then those 60 lakh people should get what the government is giving. And when I say 100 per cent saturation, it means true social justice. It is true secularism. Then there is no possibility of corruption. You know, even if you get it on Monday, you will get it do sure,” PM Modi said.

When asked why he called out Muslims for “having more children”, the Prime Minister said, “I’m shocked. Why do people assume I’m talking about Muslims when I talk about people having too many children? Even poor Hindu families have this issue. They are not being able to give their kids proper education. I have neither named Hindus nor Muslims. I’ve just made an appeal that have only many kids as you can take care of.”

“My mantra is ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas‘. I don’t work for vote bank. If something is wrong, I’ll say it’s wrong,” the PM said.

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