Within five hours of US President Donald Trump calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India decided to halt the four-day military conflict with Pakistan, claimed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, during his rally ย in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, where he was joined by INDIA bloc partners M K Stalin of the DMK and Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD, among others, as part of the state-wide โVoter Adhikar Yatraโ.
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“You know what Trump has said today? He has said that at the height of tensions with Pakistan, he called up Modi and peremptorily told him to stop the fight within 24 hours. And Modi obeyed promptly. He was given 24 hours, but he did as directed by Trump in five hours,” alleged Rahul.
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The allusion was to a video of Trump in which he can be seen addressing a cabinet meeting at the White House. The US President has been insisting that the standoff between India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, was brought to a halt upon his โinterventionโ, a claim that has been refuted by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government, asserting that the military conflict was halted in May following direct talks between their militaries without any mediation by the US.
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โThe media will not show you what Trump has said since it cares only for Modi and his friendly business tycoons and not people like me, Stalin or Tejashwiโ, the ex-Congress chief cited.
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“I have come out with lots of evidence to suggest that votes have been stolen for the benefit of the BJP. In the days to come, I will come up with more evidence.” He also said the โGujarat modelโ, which was touted by Modi when he was the chief minister of the western state, was โall about ‘vote chori’. The BJP started stealing people’s votes from there. The BJP, Modi and Shah win polls by stealing votes with the help of the ECโ, he added.
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The Rae Bareli MP also voiced strong disapproval of the deletion of names of 65 lakh people, declared as โdeadโ, โshiftedโ or โabsentโ from draft electoral rolls in Bihar.
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โThousands of people in Bihar have complained to us that their names have been wrongly deleted. So much so that many living people have been shown as dead (in draft rolls). EC is deleting names of not the rich but Dalits, OBCs, extremely backward classes and the minorities. It is doing so because the BJP, which rules the Centre, does not want the voice of the common people to be heard,โ Gandhi claimed.