PM Narendra Modi claimed the intentions of “these people” were to tease the people of the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday attacked INDIA bloc allies Rahul Gandhi and Lalu Yadav for allegedly eating mutton during the holy month of Sawan last year, claiming they don’t care about the sentiments of the majority of the country. PM Modi, without naming the two leaders, compared them with the Mughals and accused them of attempting to “tease the people of the country”. PM Modi was referring to a viral video — released in September last year — in which RJD leader Lalu Yadav and senior Congress MP Rahul Gandhi were seen cooking mutton together. “The people of Congress and INDI alliance do not care about the sentiments of the majority of the people of the country. They enjoy playing with the sentiments of the people. A person who has been sentenced by the court and who is on bail — they visit the house of such a criminal and enjoy cooking mutton in the month of Sawan and they make a video of it to tease the people of the country,” PM Modi said at an election rally in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur. PM Modi claimed the intentions of “these people” were to tease the people of the country, “just like the Mughals”. “The law does not stop anyone from eating anything but the intentions of these people are something else. When the Mughals attacked here, they were not satisfied until they demolished the temples. So just like Mughals, they want to tease the people of the country by showing the video in the month of Sawan,” he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. PM Modi also reacted to the controversy triggered by Tejashwi Yadav’s video. “Amid Navratri, eating non-veg food, by showing these videos, hurting the sentiments of the people, who are you trying to impress?” PM Modi said.
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