Uttarakhand Polls 2022 | Congress Not Ready To Consider India ‘Rashtra’: PM Modi

Prime Minister Modi said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will secure the “devatava” of devbhoomi Uttarakhand.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a rally in Uttarakhand. (Image: Twitter/@BJP4UK)

New Delhi: Escalating his attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the grand old party is not even ready to consider India a “rashtra”.

“India is one, this country is one...Congress says there is no nation. Congress is not even ready to consider India a nation (rashtra),” said Prime Minister Modi addressing public rally in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, ANI reported.

Prime Minister Modi said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will secure the “devatava” of devbhoomi Uttarakhand.

The Prime Minister also used the occasion to reach out to the Bengali voters in the hill state.

“Several Bengali families live here. I want to congratulate Pushkar Singh Dhami that they decided to remove ‘Poorvi Pakistan’ mention from the caste certificates of rehabilitated Bengalis,” he said.

Throwing light on the BJP’s mission for Uttarakhand, Prime Minister Modi said: “We are constructing highways and airports here. Under ‘Parvat Mala’, ropeway connectivity will be provided in the remote areas via the national ropeway development programme.”

“New medical colleges and degree colleges will be opened,” he added reaching out to the youth.

Prime Minister Modi further said that his government provided support to the poor during Covid-19 via free ration and several other schemes.

“Corruption would have taken place if the Congress was ruling the state,” he said.

The hill state will go for polls in a single phase on February 14 and the results will be declared on March 10.

In the 2017 Uttarakhand Assembly elections, the BJP had won 56 out of the total 70 seats. The Congress party bagged just 11 seats.