BJP slams opposition for criticizing Modi’s Patna visit

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday criticized the opposition for attacking the party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, after he visited the family members of the Patna serial blast victims.
“The blasts that happened in Patna was a terror attack. And if Narendra Modi has gone to Patna to visit the victims, where is it written that this is wrong?” he questioned.
The opposition has maintained that Modi’s Patna visit is politically motivated.
Earlier in the day, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Ali Anwar said: “Where was Modi that time? After the rally, Modi could have gone to the hospital to see the victims.”
Congress leader Rashid Alvi asked why Modi did not visit Muzaffarnagar where more than 60 people were killed in communal clashes last month. “Did Narendra Modi really go there to sympathize with the victims of Patna blasts? Why didn’t he go to Muzaffarnagar? He is not even talking about Muzaffarnagar. This is purely politics and nothing else. People of this country are aware that Modi’s Patna visit is political. And this kind of politics is very unfortunate,” he said on Saturday.
Modi, who arrived in Patna on November 1, met the families of the six people on Saturday, who were killed in serial blasts ahead of his massive ‘Hunkar’ rally on October 27.
The BJP leader also said that the inefficiency of the Congress Party is known to everyone. Reacting to Congress’ demand to stop opinion polls, he said that they can destroy the messenger, but not the message.
‘The Congress party needs to understand. The message is not destroyed if you kill the messenger. The message is against the Congress Party. Today they want opinion polls to be restricted; tomorrow they would close all meetings of the opposition. The inefficiency of the Congress Party is known to everyone,” he said.
The Congress Party has written to the Election Commission (EC) to restrict opinion polls ahead of the elections.
The legal department of the Congress Party stated that opinion polls can be misused, and they are not scientific or credible.
The opinion polls have been projecting poor show of the Congress in states where Assembly Elections are scheduled to take place. (ANI)