Prime Minister Narendra Modi and HM Amit Shah.
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In 2002, the then chief minister Narendra Modi "taught such a lesson" to the rioters that no one has dared to stoke rioting in the state since then, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday.
Shah's remarks came at the "Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra" in Sanand, Ahmedabad district, where he praised PM Narendra Modi for making Ram Temple a reality, scrapping Article 370, launching Chandrayaan-3 among others.
After talking about how rickety infrastructure was overhauled under the BJP rule, Shah said, "In 2002, there was rioting. After that, Modi saheb taught them a lesson. Tell me, has there been any rioting since then? In 2002, the rioters were taught such a lesson that till date no one has dared to cause rioting in Gujarat."
Since then, the home minister said, "Gujarat has been peaceful, developed and prosperous".
In his speech, Shah said, "Earlier, bomb blasts were so frequent that journalists used to forget about writing. Modi saheb, through one surgical and air strike, taught Pakistan a lesson. Thus, Modi saheb worked to keep the country safe."
Shah raked up Article 370, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, saying the "dream of abrogating Article 370 from Kashmir was unfulfilled since the time of Sardar Patel and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee but Modi saheb revoked it immediately".
Next, he spoke about Ram Temple, which is scheduled to be inaugurated in Ayodhya next year. "For 550 years, Lord Ram was kept in a tambu (tent) in the country. There was no temple. Modi saheb built the temple at once," he said.
"Entire world reached the moon but not our tricolour. Narendrabhai sent Chandrayaan to the moon and he even worked for hoisting tricolour at Shiv Shakti point (the landing site of Chandrayaan-3 near moon's south pole)," he said.