BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Friday tore into Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi over his emotional speech recently where he recalled the "sacrifices" of his father and grandmother during an election rally in Rajasthan recently.
Speaking in Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh's backward Bundelkhand region, the Gujarat chief minister said, "I have not come here to cry and complain or shed tears. I am here to give you confidence that your tears will be wiped away. This is the land of heroes that has given birth to so many gifted men and women... I am here with commitment to wipe away the tears of the poor and the oppressed of Bundelkhand."
"Shahzada has said 'I was deeply anguished when my grandmother died', but is it not true that the Congressmen were also angry and anguished and took revenge by killing thousands of Sikhs," he asked, adding "Anyone who believes in humanity will never approve the use of this language," the BJP leader said.
In his message to the country at large, Modi said, "You gave Congress 60 years, give us 60 months."
'Packages are for buying politicians off'
Earlier he targeted the governments at the Centre and in the state for Bundelkhand's backwardness. "Why can't Bundelkhand progress, why can't it be developed? Are the farmers here not strong, are they not able? The problem lies not here but in Delhi and Lucknow. I was taking an aerial view while coming here seeing so many rivers and I wonder why is the land here parched. Why is the farmer here compelled to commit suicide? I am posing the question to the Centre."
"No matter where the Congress is in rule, be it in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra or Uttar Pradesh that is ruled by its ally, why is the number of farmers' suicides highest?" he asked.
"This government works as a news agency, only giving news about what is happening in the country. They do nothing about it... Shahzada seeks past glory of his family in the shanties of the poor. He took away ration cards from the poor the last time he came to Bundelkhand and never returned it," he said.
Dismissing the relief plans released by the government, he said, "In election time they talk of packages. You also got the promise of a package. You must have thought the package was for your benefit. It was not for you, but to buy off politicians."
"Mandis were promised, have those been built? There were promises of wells, (have) those been dug? Then where did the money go? The package was for their pockets. Only half of the package meant for Bundelkhand came to Uttar Pradesh and the other half went to Madhya Pradesh," he said.
Modi praises Shivraj
Crediting Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for his work in the part of the region that falls in MP, Modi said, "I can assert proudly today that my party's soldier Shivraj Singh Chouhan ensured every penny was spent on Bundelkhand. He ensured that more than 30 per cent of the land in that region was irrigated. I am not saying this as a BJP leader. The Planning Commission says that only MP has done a good job of utilising this package."
"The money comes in your name but goes into their pockets. Now it is not the time for more packages. It is time to pack up the bags and bid goodbye to the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party. The Samajwadi Party's conduct is such that if Dr Rammanohar Lohia were alive, he would be extremely sad... They have ruined Uttar Pradesh and Bundelkhand," Modi said attacking the Akhilesh Yadav government.
"The Congress is behind large scale migration of people from Bundelkhand to Mumbai and places in Gujarat. Otherwise what they have done to Gujarat could have been done here," he said.
Modi talked of a pilot project where a private company in Gujarat has been asked to allow young workers to finish their job in half the time after which they would be allowed six months' leave at home where they can attend to their family responsibilities and also work on their fields.
'SP and BSP are Congress's friends in Delhi'
"The leaders here are not interested in development. They are not interested in the future of youth... On one side is Congress's arrogance, on the other there is Samajwadi Party's dynastic politics and BSP's personality politics. They don't know how to fulfil your promises. They only want to fill their stomachs," Modi said.
"Till Uttar Pradesh does not commit itself to ridding all three of them, it won't develop... Will any Bundelkhand's son or daughter want to leave their village to live in a slum in Mumbai? If that same sweat of labour had been applied here, I cannot imagine where Bundelkhand and Uttar Pradesh would have reached. I know the heart of the youth is back home in Uttar Pradesh. To get the best out of them requires ideas like this," he said.
"Can you hear the Lok Sabha polls knocking at your door... I want you to tell me are they not accountable to you? Are they not answerable to you? But they don't want to give you answers," Modi said as he sought people's votes for his party.
"The BJP has chosen me, an ordinary man born into a poor family, someone who as a child sold tea on the railway platform. Look at the values of this party that it chose me to be its prime ministerial candidate. Please don't make me prime minister. Make me your chowkidaar... Give us 60 months. We will change the destiny and the face of India," he said.
'Shahzada has made a serious allegation on minority community members'
Attacking the Gandhi scion over his revelation in Indore that Intelligence Bureau had told him that that some Pakistani agencies were approaching the victims of Muzaffarnagar riots, Modi said, "How come an IB officer shares some classified information with someone who does not hold a constitutional position... Shahzada should be asked in what circumstances did the IB officer report to him. When Shahzada says ISI is in touch with Muslim youth in Muzaffarnagar what is your government doing? Why are they allowing agencies like ISI to make their bases in India?"
"Shahzada has also made a very serious allegation on minority community members living in relief camps in Muzaffarnagar. He has accused them of having relations with the ISI. I challenge him to disclose the name of the ones involved or seek pardon publicly," he said apparently trying to exploit the minority community's anger over Rahul's speech.
"Shahzada has said 'I was deeply anguished when my grandmother died', but is it not true that the Congressmen were also angry and anguished and took revenge by killing thousands of Sikhs," he asked, adding "Anyone who believes in humanity will never approve the use of this language," the BJP leader said.
In his message to the country at large, Modi said, "You gave Congress 60 years, give us 60 months."
'Packages are for buying politicians off'
Earlier he targeted the governments at the Centre and in the state for Bundelkhand's backwardness. "Why can't Bundelkhand progress, why can't it be developed? Are the farmers here not strong, are they not able? The problem lies not here but in Delhi and Lucknow. I was taking an aerial view while coming here seeing so many rivers and I wonder why is the land here parched. Why is the farmer here compelled to commit suicide? I am posing the question to the Centre."
"No matter where the Congress is in rule, be it in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra or Uttar Pradesh that is ruled by its ally, why is the number of farmers' suicides highest?" he asked.
"This government works as a news agency, only giving news about what is happening in the country. They do nothing about it... Shahzada seeks past glory of his family in the shanties of the poor. He took away ration cards from the poor the last time he came to Bundelkhand and never returned it," he said.
Dismissing the relief plans released by the government, he said, "In election time they talk of packages. You also got the promise of a package. You must have thought the package was for your benefit. It was not for you, but to buy off politicians."
"Mandis were promised, have those been built? There were promises of wells, (have) those been dug? Then where did the money go? The package was for their pockets. Only half of the package meant for Bundelkhand came to Uttar Pradesh and the other half went to Madhya Pradesh," he said.
Modi praises Shivraj
Crediting Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for his work in the part of the region that falls in MP, Modi said, "I can assert proudly today that my party's soldier Shivraj Singh Chouhan ensured every penny was spent on Bundelkhand. He ensured that more than 30 per cent of the land in that region was irrigated. I am not saying this as a BJP leader. The Planning Commission says that only MP has done a good job of utilising this package."
"The money comes in your name but goes into their pockets. Now it is not the time for more packages. It is time to pack up the bags and bid goodbye to the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party. The Samajwadi Party's conduct is such that if Dr Rammanohar Lohia were alive, he would be extremely sad... They have ruined Uttar Pradesh and Bundelkhand," Modi said attacking the Akhilesh Yadav government.
"The Congress is behind large scale migration of people from Bundelkhand to Mumbai and places in Gujarat. Otherwise what they have done to Gujarat could have been done here," he said.
Modi talked of a pilot project where a private company in Gujarat has been asked to allow young workers to finish their job in half the time after which they would be allowed six months' leave at home where they can attend to their family responsibilities and also work on their fields.
'SP and BSP are Congress's friends in Delhi'
"The leaders here are not interested in development. They are not interested in the future of youth... On one side is Congress's arrogance, on the other there is Samajwadi Party's dynastic politics and BSP's personality politics. They don't know how to fulfil your promises. They only want to fill their stomachs," Modi said.
"Till Uttar Pradesh does not commit itself to ridding all three of them, it won't develop... Will any Bundelkhand's son or daughter want to leave their village to live in a slum in Mumbai? If that same sweat of labour had been applied here, I cannot imagine where Bundelkhand and Uttar Pradesh would have reached. I know the heart of the youth is back home in Uttar Pradesh. To get the best out of them requires ideas like this," he said.
"Can you hear the Lok Sabha polls knocking at your door... I want you to tell me are they not accountable to you? Are they not answerable to you? But they don't want to give you answers," Modi said as he sought people's votes for his party.
"The BJP has chosen me, an ordinary man born into a poor family, someone who as a child sold tea on the railway platform. Look at the values of this party that it chose me to be its prime ministerial candidate. Please don't make me prime minister. Make me your chowkidaar... Give us 60 months. We will change the destiny and the face of India," he said.
'Shahzada has made a serious allegation on minority community members'
Attacking the Gandhi scion over his revelation in Indore that Intelligence Bureau had told him that that some Pakistani agencies were approaching the victims of Muzaffarnagar riots, Modi said, "How come an IB officer shares some classified information with someone who does not hold a constitutional position... Shahzada should be asked in what circumstances did the IB officer report to him. When Shahzada says ISI is in touch with Muslim youth in Muzaffarnagar what is your government doing? Why are they allowing agencies like ISI to make their bases in India?"
"Shahzada has also made a very serious allegation on minority community members living in relief camps in Muzaffarnagar. He has accused them of having relations with the ISI. I challenge him to disclose the name of the ones involved or seek pardon publicly," he said apparently trying to exploit the minority community's anger over Rahul's speech.
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