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‘Batenge toh katenge’ didn’t work in Maharashtra: Sanjay Raut after PM Modi’s ‘ek hain toh safe hain’ comment | India News – Times of India
“Why has the need arisen for the Prime Minister to say these kinds of things. ‘Batenge toh katenge’ didn’t work here and the people of Maharashtra threw it away. Now ‘ek hain toh safe hain’, who is he trying to unite and who is he trying to save? Are not all the people of the state and country yours? We are safe in Maharashtra and we want to be safer, so we are throwing out BJP.
Addressing a rally in Dhule, Prime Minister Modi had asked people to remain united and said, “Ek hai, toh safe hai.”
“The only agenda of the Congress party is to pit one caste against another. They don’t want SCs, STs and OBCs to progress and get due recognition… Remember, ‘Ek hai toh safe hai’,” he said on Friday.
The Prime Minister’s latest slogan comes amid the growing controversy surrounding Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s recent statement, “Batenge toh katenge” (if we speak, they will be cut down). The UP CM first used the phrase at a rally in Agra, referring to the violence against Hindu minorities in Bangladesh. The phrase has sparked debate, with critics questioning its implications. Following this, both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat made similar calls for Hindu unity. During his annual Vijayadashami address this year, Bhagwat warned that “being disorganized and weak invites atrocities from the wicked.”
Adityanath later repeated the slogan at an election rally in Maharashtra, where he was campaigning for the ruling Mahayuti alliance.
At his first campaign rally for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, Prime Minister Modi launched a sharp attack on the Congress party. He accused the party, along with the Nehru-Gandhi family, of consistently opposing the reservation policy since the era of Jawaharlal Nehru. He further alleged that their ‘fourth generation prince’ (Rahul Gandhi) was now promoting caste divisions.
“Since the time of Nehru, the Congress and its family have opposed reservations, and now their fourth-generation ‘yuvraj’ (prince) is working to sow caste discord,” Modi noted.
The Maharashtra Assembly elections will be held on November 20, and the results for all 288 constituencies will be declared on November 23.
The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition, comprising Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), aims to regain control of the state. They will take on the Mahayuti alliance, which brings together the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the NCP faction led by Ajit Pawar.
In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections, the BJP emerged as the largest party with 105 seats, while the Shiv Sena won 56 seats and the Congress won 44 seats. In the previous elections of 2014, the BJP performed stronger with 122 seats, while Shiv Sena won 63 seats. and Congress won 42 seats.
