'Main jaan ki baazi laga dunga’ : PM Modi confronts Rahul Gandhi on ‘shakti’ remark

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‘shakti’ remark, saying that every mother and daughter is a form of ‘shakti’ in India. The Prime Minister was addressing a Lok Sabha election rally in Telangana's Jagtial. “The INDI (INDIA) alliance in their manifesto said that their fight is against 'Shakti'.

For me, every mother, daughter and sister is a form of 'Shakti'. I worship them in the form of 'Shakti'. I am the worshiper of Bharat Mata...," the prime minister said.

He said, “Their manifesto is to finish 'Shakti', and I accept the challenge...'Main jaan ki baazi laga dunga'…" Rahul Gandhi's ‘shakti’ remark at the concluding ceremony of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Maharashtra on Sunday started a political spat between Congress and BJP leaders. The Wayanad MP said that his party and the entire opposition are fighting against a Shakti (power). “There is a word 'Shakti' in Hinduism.

We are fighting against a Shakti. The question is, what is that Shakti. The soul of the King is in the EVM.

This true. The soul of the King in the EVM and every institution of the country, in ED, CBI and Income Tax department," the former Congress president said. "A senior leader from Maharashtra left Congress and cried in from of my mother and said 'Sonia ji, I am ashamed that I don't have the power to fight this Shakti.

I do not want to go to jail.' Thousands of people have been threatened like this..." he added. BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla accused the Congress MP of expressing 'misogynistic' views, saying the INDIA alliance members have called Hindu Dharma a “fraud" and the Congress has a history of “Hindu hatred". “A series of INDI alliance members have said that Hindu Dharma is fraud.