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The verbal sparring between the BJP and the Congress escalated on Wednesday, with Digvijaya Singh dismissing the matter as ‘nonsense’ and questioning ‘if anybody stay on that island’. (PTI photograph)
Prime Minister Modi criticised the mindset that considers uninhabited areas as mere land to be disposed of, citing it as a mirrored image of the Congress’s strategy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a swipe at senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh’s remarks on the Katchatheevu island throughout a ballot rally in Rajasthan.
Referring to Singh with out immediately naming him, PM Modi remarked, “Rahta nahi hai toh de deni hai kya? Phir ye registan ko tum kya kahoge kal. Yahi kahoge ki koi rahta hai kya? (If nobody lives there, does that imply you’ll give it away? Then what’s going to you say concerning the deserts? That whether or not anybody stays right here?)”
Prime Minister criticised the mindset that considers uninhabited areas as mere land to be disposed of, citing it as a mirrored image of the Congress’s strategy, the Hindustan Occasions reported.
“That is their mentality. To them, an uninhabited area within the nation is only a piece of land. They can provide away Rajasthan’s place like that,” PM Modi acknowledged.
The long-standing dispute over territorial and fishing rights in regards to the Katchatheevu island has resurfaced, sparking a disagreement between the BJP and opposition events. Located between Rameswaram in India and Sri Lanka, the island was acknowledged as Sri Lankan territory by the Indian authorities in 1974 below the “Indo-Sri Lankan Maritime Settlement.”
The difficulty gained traction forward of the upcoming normal elections after the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP), backed by RTI paperwork, claimed that the island was handed over to Sri Lanka throughout the Congress authorities’s tenure.
The verbal sparring between the BJP and the Congress escalated on Wednesday, with Digvijaya Singh dismissing the matter as ‘nonsense’ and questioning ‘if anybody stay on that island’.
Singh’s response got here after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s raised the Katchatheevu problem throughout an election rally in Tamil Nadu, the place he accused the Congress and DMK of holding the state uninformed and accused the Congress for gifting away the island to Sri Lanka.
“I wish to ask if anyone lives on that island,” Singh stated whereas speaking to reporters. On being requested concerning the problem of the Indian fishermen who acquired arrested going there, the Congress chief stated, “Modiji speaks nonsense, with none head or tail.”
