No power can stop BJP from getting majority in LS: Rajnath
BY Agencies23 Dec 2013 11:02 PM GMT
Agencies23 Dec 2013 11:02 PM GMT
‘People have given a clarion call for change. As BJP national president, I have come to the conclusion that people of India have made up their mind that there is a need for ‘parivartan’ (change),’ Singh said.
‘There is an outcry against Congress,’ the BJP leader said at the ‘Mahagarjana’ rally organised by his party in Mumbai.
Ridiculing Congress as only eight of its candidates were elected in the recent Delhi assembly elections, Singh said a Toyota Innova was big enough to carry all the Congress MLAs around.
‘If our government is formed (after the Lok Sabha polls), we will encourage the manufacturing sector and strengthen the rupee,’ Singh said. BJP chief targeted Maharashtra’s Congress-NCP government over corruption.
‘Adarsh, Campa Cola society scam, irrigation scam...It seems as if the Maharashtra government has become a government of scams. The Adarsh panel report was rejected saying it was done so in public interest. Can there be a public interest in corruption,’ he said. Congress has become a shield for corruption, he said.
‘Congress people say, can a tea vendor (Modi) become the Prime Minister? Barack Obama has sold ice cream, Abdul Kalam sold newspapers, Lincoln cut wood. If they can reach pole position, why not Narendra Modi?,’ Singh asked.
‘Congress people call us chor (thief) and jahrili (poisonous) party, maut ka saudagar (merchant of death). But we don’t get angry. We get angry when we realise our borders are shrinking, when Pak soldiers behead our jawans, when China makes incursions, when US does not give us Headley,’ he said.
Singh also flayed Congress for seeking to claim credit for Lokpall Bill passage. ‘Those immersed in corruption, claim they passed Lokpal. I would like to give credit for Lokpal to Anna Hazare. Congress, which jailed Hazare, is claiming the credit,’ he said.
‘I want to ask the crowd, can you assure us at least 46 of the 48 LS seats from Maharashtra,’ he said.
Singh paid tributes to Bal Thackeray, who passed away last year.
Narendra Modi’s wax statue unveiled in Mumbai
MUMBAI: A wax statue of Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate, was unveiled in Mumbai ahead of the ‘Maha Garjana rally’ he is addressing in suburban Bandra this afternoon where 10,000 tea vendors have been specially invited.
BJP president Rajnath Singh unveiled the statue before the two leaders proceeded for the rally.
Singh posed with the statue, flanked by Modi. The BJP chief even tried to shake hands with the statue.
Around 10,000 tea vendors were among those specially invited for the rally.
‘Somebody from the Samajwadi Party said Modi was a tea vendor and a tea vendor cannot become the prime minister. And Modiji had replied, Desh bechne walo se chai bechne wale achche hote hain (those who sell tea are better than those who sell the country),’ Maharashtra BJP unit president Devendra Fadnavis said.
‘That created a sense of pride amongst the tea vendors of Mumbai and they contacted us and we said ‘Yes, you come. We will give you a place to sit’, he said.
‘There is an outcry against Congress,’ the BJP leader said at the ‘Mahagarjana’ rally organised by his party in Mumbai.
Ridiculing Congress as only eight of its candidates were elected in the recent Delhi assembly elections, Singh said a Toyota Innova was big enough to carry all the Congress MLAs around.
‘If our government is formed (after the Lok Sabha polls), we will encourage the manufacturing sector and strengthen the rupee,’ Singh said. BJP chief targeted Maharashtra’s Congress-NCP government over corruption.
‘Adarsh, Campa Cola society scam, irrigation scam...It seems as if the Maharashtra government has become a government of scams. The Adarsh panel report was rejected saying it was done so in public interest. Can there be a public interest in corruption,’ he said. Congress has become a shield for corruption, he said.
‘Congress people say, can a tea vendor (Modi) become the Prime Minister? Barack Obama has sold ice cream, Abdul Kalam sold newspapers, Lincoln cut wood. If they can reach pole position, why not Narendra Modi?,’ Singh asked.
‘Congress people call us chor (thief) and jahrili (poisonous) party, maut ka saudagar (merchant of death). But we don’t get angry. We get angry when we realise our borders are shrinking, when Pak soldiers behead our jawans, when China makes incursions, when US does not give us Headley,’ he said.
Singh also flayed Congress for seeking to claim credit for Lokpall Bill passage. ‘Those immersed in corruption, claim they passed Lokpal. I would like to give credit for Lokpal to Anna Hazare. Congress, which jailed Hazare, is claiming the credit,’ he said.
‘I want to ask the crowd, can you assure us at least 46 of the 48 LS seats from Maharashtra,’ he said.
Singh paid tributes to Bal Thackeray, who passed away last year.
Narendra Modi’s wax statue unveiled in Mumbai
MUMBAI: A wax statue of Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate, was unveiled in Mumbai ahead of the ‘Maha Garjana rally’ he is addressing in suburban Bandra this afternoon where 10,000 tea vendors have been specially invited.
BJP president Rajnath Singh unveiled the statue before the two leaders proceeded for the rally.
Singh posed with the statue, flanked by Modi. The BJP chief even tried to shake hands with the statue.
Around 10,000 tea vendors were among those specially invited for the rally.
‘Somebody from the Samajwadi Party said Modi was a tea vendor and a tea vendor cannot become the prime minister. And Modiji had replied, Desh bechne walo se chai bechne wale achche hote hain (those who sell tea are better than those who sell the country),’ Maharashtra BJP unit president Devendra Fadnavis said.
‘That created a sense of pride amongst the tea vendors of Mumbai and they contacted us and we said ‘Yes, you come. We will give you a place to sit’, he said.
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