Bring ‘ganatantra’ to end ‘gun tantra’: PM

Exhorts people to brave all threats and intimidation to give the BJP a massive mandate

February 15, 2018 10:31 pm | Updated 11:04 pm IST - Agartala

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally for upcoming Assembly polls, in Agartala on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally for upcoming Assembly polls, in Agartala on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the last leg of his election campaign in Tripura, called upon the people on Thursday to install ‘ganatantra’ (democracy) to end ‘gun tantra (culture of gun) in the State. He urged the Election Commission to ensure free and peaceful polling on February 18, as the CPI(M) would “adopt violent means” to terrorise people.

“I am sure of the BJP’s success after coming to know that the Left resorted to violence and adopted unethical measures”, Mr. Modi said at the rally in Santir Bazar in south Tripura. The CPI(M), he said, was quivering as it stared at a certain defeat.

Mr. Modi said over 10 BJP workers were killed over the past one year and mentioned the recent ‘murder’ of a local party leader Madhusudan Deb here last week. “Defeat the Left in a big way as a mark of respect to the martyrs who laid down their lives working to see a change,” he appealed. He exhorted the people to brave “all threats” to give the BJP a massive mandate.

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