‘PM Modi will build his temples in every village if BJP wins Lok Sabha polls’:Karnataka Minister Shivaraj Tangadagi

“This strength is not from my body. It has been given to me by God. That’s why God also gave me the ability, strength, pure-heartedness, and inspiration to do this. I’m nothing but an instrument that God has sent,” the prime minister had said.

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Minister’s jibe at Sambit Patra remark

Tangadagi also took a swipe at BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra’s statement that Lord Jagannath is PM Modi’s devotee.

“In case Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins this time, a situation will emerge to build his temples everywhere. Ram temple has happened and others are also being constructed. ‘Now (he will say) my own temple should be built’ because his statements are like that,” Tangadagi told reporters at Karatagi in Koppal district.

“Modi’s mind has reached to an extent where he says if people give him a chance this time, he will say that his temple should be built in every village,” the minister said, and added that public representatives are public servants and they are not God.

Ridiculing Patra’s statement, Tangadagi said, “They (BJP leaders) say that Puri Jagannath is Modi’s devotee. If God is his devotee, then (you can guess) where has the BJP people’s mindset reached.”

Calling his statement a slip of tongue, Patra, the BJP’s candidate from Jagannath Puri in Odisha, had apologised to the people and did penance for three days.

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