'Koi rahta nahi hai toh...': PM Modi on Digvijaya Singh's Katchatheevu comment
By : Vidya J S
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Congress can give away Rajasthan's uninhabited land as well claiming that no one lives here.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday touched upon the Katchatheevu issue as he addressed a rally in Rajasthan and reacted to senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's 'does anyone live on Katchatheevu' statement. Without naming Digvijaya Singh, Narendra Modi said, "Rahta nahi hai toh de deni hai kya? Phir ye registan ko tum kya kahoge kal. Yahi kahoge ki koi rahta hai kya? (If no one lives there, does that mean you will give that away? A Congress leader yesterday asked whether anyone lives there. Then what will you say about this desert? That whether anyone stays here?) Is this the way to serve the country? This is their mentality. An uninhabited space in the country is just a piece of land to them. They can give away Rajasthan's place like that," Modi said. The Katchatheevu issue has gained significance as just ahead of the elections, the BJP claimed citing RTI documents that the island was ceded to Sri Lanka by the Congress government.
