Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken some tough decisions without any confusion and also maintained peace and tranquillity in the country while implementing them.
Shah was referring to some of the big projects of religious and cultural significance including renovation of the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.
He said when the Bharatiya Janata Party after its formation won only two Lok Sabha seats, the then PM Rajiv Gandhi had joked about it. But now, the BJP has governments in 16 states of the country and more than 400 members of Parliament, the Union minister said. Whenever the BJP came to power at the Centre, Indian culture received a huge boost and it became popular across the world, Shah said.
On the occasion of Lord Hanuman Jayanti, Shah was in Salangpur village of Gujarat’s Botad district to inaugurate a newly built mega kitchen at Shree Kashtbhanjan Dev Mandir, the famous Lord Hanuman temple.
“Lakhs of people have made sacrifices since the time of Babur for Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya. Instead of bringing a solution, the Congress kept stretching the issue. One day, a court judgement came and Modiji performed ground breaking for the Ram temple,” Shah said.
Though some people used to say that riots will break out if the issues of Article 370 and Ram Janmabhoomi are touched, nothing of that sort happened, the BJP leader said.
“Similarly, we have completed the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, Kedardham, Badrinath, gold plating of Somnath temple and makeover of Pavagadh temple. BJP leader and our PM Narendra Modi, without any confusion, took tough decisions with firmness while simultaneously maintaining peace and tranquillity in the country,” he said.
