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"But, a shameless Congress sought proof about the genuineness of the surgical strike. Bodies of Pakistani soldiers were carried on trucks, a famous newspaper said that...and they need proof. Should our valiant soldiers go on such operations with a camera or a gun?" he said.
In the line of Congress fire over the BJP granting party tickets to Reddy brothers, accused of involvement in a humongous illegal iron ore mining scam, the prime minister hit back.
"This Karnataka government frustrated all attempts by the Centre to stop illegal mining in Ballari ... to allow the auction of mining blocks. But, the Siddaramaiah government failed to formulate a mining policy in five years," he told an election rally in Ballari.
Seeking to turn the tables on the Congress for its criticism of the BJP over Reddy brothers, Modi said,"The honesty of Ballari is being insulted...as if only thieves and looters live in Ballari."
The prime minister said it was the nature of the Congress to play vote bank politics.
"It is an anti-Dalit, anti-Adivasi, anti-OBC party. When we wanted to accord constitutional status to the OBC commission, it blocked our move," he said.
The prime minister said that the BJP's rivals once called it a "Brahmin-Bania" party, but it made a Dalit the president, and a backward 'chaiwalla' the prime minister.
"The people of Karnataka have made up their mind to demolish the last fortress of the Congress on 15 May (the day election results will be announced)," Modi said.
He also questioned the Congress government over why the funds which the Centre allocated to Karnataka for developing smart cities "remained unutilised".
Referring to poll predictions, Modi said the JD(S) was going to finish a "poor, distant third". "Will any intelligent person waste his vote on a party that cannot win the election, cannot dislodge the Congress from power?" he asked.
"The only service it has done to the state is to join hands with extremist, communal elements, risking the future of Karnataka," he said in an apparent reference to Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM extending support to the JD(S).
Congress has turned Karnataka into killing fields of Hindu activists: Yogi Adityanath
Adityanath, who is among the BJP's star campaigners in the upcoming Assembly elections in Karnataka, said the Congress is used to supporting 'jihadis'.
According to The Times of India, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister accused the Congress of turning the once role-model state for the nation into 'killing fields of Hindu activists'.
Addressing a BJP rally in Sirsa, Adityanath also accused the Karnataka government of looting the state. Seeking to highlight the achievements of his government, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister said that Uttar Pradesh was facing a similar law and order situation before his government assumed power, but now the anti-social elements have fled the state. Adityanath also noted that Uttar Pradesh has a population of 23 crore, which is three times that of Karnataka, but the state had not witnessed cases of farmer suicides.
He further accused the Congress government of dividing Karnataka along caste lines and alleged that the law and order in the state was on the decline and people like Yasin Bhatkal had taken over.
Adityanath also attacked the Karnataka government on the issue of farm loan waiver, and said that while the Siddaramaiah-led government had waived the loans of farmers in co-operative societies, his government in Uttar Pradesh had waived the loans of all farmers, including those availed from nationalised banks.
He also sought to draw a connection between Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka by recalling the relationship between Gorakhnath Mutt in Uttar Pradesh, which he represents, and the Kadri Mutt in Mangaluru, Manjunatheshwara temple in Dharmasthala and Adichunchanagiri Mutt in Sringeri.
Meanwhile, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah slammed Adityanath on Twitter, for giving campaigning in Karnataka a priority over visiting the families who lost their loved ones in the dust storm that started on Wednesday. He tweeted:
Congress won't even bag 60 seats: BS Yeddyurappa
