DEFENCE Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said the Opposition I.N.D.I.A. bloc had no durability and attacked the mega alliance over issues including Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Shakti’ remark and the DMK’s “anti-woman mindset.”Targeting DMK over its leader Udhayanidhi Stalin’s alleged anti-Sanatana Dharma remarks and INDIA bloc over Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Shakti’ comments, the senior BJP leader alleged the opposition alliance was targeting the Hindu faith and women while trying to criticise BJP.

 

He also trained his guns at the Congress over the ceding of Katchatheevu islet to Sri Lanka, saying India was “paying a heavy price” for many past ‘blunders’ of the opposition party. The senior leader attended roadshows in Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal and Tenkasi in support of NDA candidates for the April 19 Lok Sabha polls and addressed a public meeting in Tiruvarur where he launched a scathing attack on the opposition. In a veiled dig at Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Shakti’ remarks at a Mumbai meeting recently, Singh said that in their attempt to target BJP and NDA, “INDI alliance doesn’t hesitate to target the Hindu faith.” Earlier, at a roadshow in the western town of Namakkal, Singh said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) will not take away anyone’s citizenship. “We promised a citizenship act, and we did it.

 

I want to clarify that any citizen of India--whether they are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Parsi or Jew--nobody’s citizenship will go away,” he said. “The DMK and Congress are creating confusion on the matter,” he alleged. On the abolition of triple Talaq, he said “mothers and sisters” from any faith are “our mothers and sisters.” “Any atrocity against our mothers and sisters of any religion--we stand with them and we proved this by ending triple talaq,” he said. The BJP implements what it promises, he said, referring to the construction of Sri Ram Temple in Ayodhya and abolition of Article 370.