PM Modi mentions air strikes yet again in Bengal rally amidst reports that Election Commission “will take action”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today invoked air strikes and the country’s armed forces in an election campaign in West Bengal’s Bolpur yet again this afternoon amidst reports of Election Commission sources telling the media that action will be taken against earlier allegations against him of doing the same.

A report by NDTV quoted EC sources telling them that action will be taken soon in case of comments that politicise armed forces. The Opposition has made repeated allegations that PM Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah have repeatedly mentioned the air strikes in Balakot during their election campaigns.

The PM today said at the election rally in Birbhum’s Bolpur that a country in the safe hands of someone like him could make happen attacks by going into the homes of the enemy. “Ghar mein ghus kar mara,” he reiterated his oft-repeated statement yet again.

BJP’s top leaders are repeatedly making the statements and referring to nationalism, air strikes, terrorism and the country’s security concerns. NDTV quoted sources telling them that all instances involving the PM was being looked into “in entirety”, and that action will be “taken soon”, and “won’t wait for the election to end”.

PM Modi had earlier at a rally in Maharashtra said: “I want to ask my first-time voters, can your first vote be dedicated to the soldiers who conducted the Balakot air strikes? Can your first vote be in the name of the martyrs who lost their lives in Pulwama?”