Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a sketching attack on opposition politicians for their critical remarks on Mahakumbh saying that those with “slave mentality” keep attacking India’s religious and cultural traditions with the backing of foreign powers to break the country’s unity.
Days after Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee said Mahakumbh had become a ‘Mrityu Kumbh’ and other opposition leaders like Lalu Prasad Ran down the biggest mass religious gathering of Hindus, the PM told a public rally in Madhya Pradesh Chhatarpur “Nowadays we see that there is a group of leaders who mock religion and are engaged in dividing people”. He alleged that’s some foreign countries are extending support to these leaders who abuse Hindu festivals, attack hermits and temples to weaken India by disrupting social unity.
” They dare to attack religion and culture that has always been progressive”, he said adding “Those who hate the Hindu faith have existed in some garb or the other for centuries. People who have fallen with slave mind set keep attacking our ‘maths’ ‘monasteries’ (Mandir) and our ‘Saint’ ( hermits) ‘Sanskriti’ (culture)and ‘Siddhant’ (principles).”
After laying foundation stone of a Rs 218-crore, 200 bed cancer hospital at Bageshwar Dham in Gadha village of Chhatarpur, less than 80 KM from Khajurao, he said: ” Modi has decided that cancer medicines will be made even cheaper. In the next three years , cancer day care centres will be started in every district.”
Modi said cancer is becoming a difficult challenge and hence govt, society and spiritual leaders are all working together against the disease.
” He recalled that when the country elected the BJP govt, he took the pledge of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’. “one of the basic points of achieving this is ‘Sabka Ilaj’ ( medical treatment for all). ‘Sabka Arogya ( freeing everyone of diseases)’. he said