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Day after sharing dias, Modi and Sonia spar

On Saturday, both leaders kick-started their election campaign for the 15 October assembly polls in Haryana and Maharashtra and left no stones unturned to expose each other’s ‘policy paralysis’ which is affecting crore of the people in India.

Coming down heavily on Gandhi, the prime minister said, ‘Interesting to hear that those who have ruled the country for 60 years are now asking for my government’s account of 60 days. Already, the petrol and diesel prices are down and I promise to pull the country out of the current mess in coming 60 months.’

Reacting to Congress leaders who had described his recent US visit as ‘over hyped and disappointing’, Modi, who addressed a series of rallies and public meetings at Haryana and Maharashtra, questioned, ‘Was India’s presence ever felt in the US like this?’.

While asking people to dump Congress and its allies for the betterment of the country, Modi said, ‘It is not because of Modi but because of 1.25 crore countrymen. No country can afford to ignore a man behind whom 1.25 crore people stand.’

‘Today, the ruler and the society stand together,’ he added, while claiming to bring a strong and stable government.

On the context of land scams, he accused the ruling party of being ‘anti-farmer’. ‘Which poor has got a plot of land? But then where have thousands of acres of land disappeared, who has taken this?’ Modi asked. Addressing rallies in Beed and Aurangabad in Maharashtra, Modi attacked the erstwhile Congress-NCP combine in the state over corruption.

‘Every young person in Maharashtra is under a huge burden of debt because of corruption. Nobody benefited from the Congress-NCP government. Farmers, dalits, youth, adivasis, women, villages, towns etc no one has benefited. A whole generation was destroyed,’ he said, at Beed parliamentary constituency of former Union minister Gopinath Munde who died in a car crash.

He said both China and Japan would set up state-of-the-art industrial parks in states including Maharashtra. ‘Japan will cooperate in construction of high-speed railway between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, while China will assist us in solid waste management and waste water treatment for irrigation of drought prone villages in the state. This will create employment,’ he said.

While hinting at NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Modi said nothing was done to prevent farmer’s suicide in Maharashtra when he was Union agriculture minister.

Nearly 3700 farmers kill themselves each year in the state. ‘Will the farmers of Maharashtra be continued to be murdered like this?’ he asked.

‘There is no difference between Congress and NCP, they belong to the same clan. They set separate shops for some reason but their character, ideology, habits and goals are one. They are not nationalists, they are bhrashtacharvadi (corrupt),’ he said, while promising to take take Maharashtra ahead of Gujarat.

Meanwhile, Gandhi in her public meeting at Meham in the poll bound Haryana, accused Modi of portraying all the old schemes launched by the UPA in a new bottle. She hits back at Modi and said, he is forcing people to believe that nothing has been done during UPA rule.

‘He is trying to show off that everything has been done only after his government came to power and questioned what happened to NDA’s promise of bringing back black money stashed abroad within 100 days of coming to power. Have any steps been taken in this regard? Absolutely not,’ she said.
Earlier, on March 27, Modi in his first cabinet meeting formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to unearth the black money amounting to nearly $500 billion in foreign banks by several influential Indians. Later it softened its stand.

Gandhi asked, ‘They are creating such an atmosphere as if nothing has happened in the country since Independence and they will change everyone’s fortunes overnight. Have any steps been taken by the BJP to fulfill the promises made during the Lok Sabha elections. Has inflation come down? Is the poor man getting food at cheaper rate? Have the unemployed got jobs?’ ‘Being loud doesn’t mean you are speaking truth,’ Sonia added.

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