Lok Sabha Elections 2024: ‘Why target Muslims only, I also have 5 children,’ Kharge on PM Modi's ‘mangalsutra’ remarks

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Mallikarjun Kharge has expressed confidence that his party would win a majority in the ongoing Lok Sabha election. That is precisely why, Kharge said, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was talking about ‘mangalsutra and Muslims’ in his election speeches. “We are going to win a majority in this election.

And that is why, he (PM Modi) is always talking about mangalsutra and Muslims. He is saying that Congress will steal your wealth and give it to those who have more children (Muslims). Poor people always have more children.

Do only Muslims have them (children)? I have five children," Kharge said on April 30 at an election rally in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champa district, according to a report in the Indian Express. Also Read: 'Amethi maange Gandhi…': Congress workers stage protest as Lok Sabha election 2024 suspense continues | Watch Kharge was referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s April 21 remarks at a rally in Rajasthan in which he claimed that the Congress, if in power, would snatch people’s wealth and distribute it among Muslims. The Prime Minister has repeatedly attributed this claim to Congress party’s election manifesto for 2024 Lok Sabha Elections and a 2006 speech of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in which is heard saying that ‘Muslims have first right on country’s resources.’ The remarks snowballed into a political row with the Congress moving Election Commission of India against the Prime Minister on this.

“I was the only son and when every one else died in the incident, my father said that he was alive only to see my children. The poor, who don’t have money, have children. Why do you (Modi) target only Muslims? Muslims are in their country…they are Indians.