Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed a rally in Jammu and recalled the time when India had launched a surgical strike in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, inflicting heavy casualties on terrorists and “those protecting them”. PM Modi today said that the action gave out a message about “new India.”
The surgical strikes were carried out nearly 10 days after the Uri terror attack where 18 soldiers were killed when four terrorists launched a barrage of grenades at the Army's 12 Brigade headquarters in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir.
Recalling the night of October 28-29 when Special Forces of the Indian Army carried out the surgical strikes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the masters of terror know that if they dare to do anything, "Modi will find them even in hell."
"…Remember that time when bullets were fired from that side and the Congress used to wave white flags. When the BJP government responded to the bullets with shells, the people on that side came to their senses. Today is 28th September. In the year 2016, on the night of 28th September, a surgical strike was carried out. India had told the world, 'Yeh naya Bharat hai, yeh ghar mein ghuskar maarta hain…Aatank ke aakao ko pata hai agar kuch bhi himaakat ki toh Modi paataal mein bhi unhe khoj nikalega'…"
#WATCH | Jammu and Kashmir: Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, “…Remember that time when bullets were fired from that side and the Congress used to wave white flags. When the BJP government responded to the bullets with shells, the people on that side came to their senses.… pic.twitter.com/BUTBq37XTW
— ANI (@ANI) September 28, 2024
PM Attacks Congress-NC
PM Modi said, “The Congress party has consistently questioned the credibility of our military’s surgical strikes. Can we forgive such betrayal? Never!”
Further, PM Modi lashed out at the Congress-NC alliance and said, "Today, Congress-NC and PDP are enraged with the changes taking place in Jammu and Kashmir. They don't like your development. These people are saying that if their government is formed, then they will bring back the old system. They will again bring back the same discriminatory regime whose biggest victim has been our Jammu."
Notably, PM Modi's Jammu visit takes place in tandem with the ongoing assembly elections. Jammu and Kashmir is holding its first assembly elections in a decade after the abrogation of Article 370 in the erstwhile state in 2019. The elections voting will conclude on October 1 and the result will be announced after the vote count on October 8.