Amitabh Shukla
Madhopur (Pathankot)
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra
Modi on Sunday practically launched the BJP’s campaign for the Lok Sabha election 2014 here
on the borders of
Addressing the Sankalp rally on
the occasion of party founder Shyama Prasad Mookerjee’s 60th death anniversary,
the chairman of BJP Campaign Committee launched a blistering attack on the
Congress and how it had failed the country and its people on all fronts.
Mookerjee, who had opposed
separate constitution and flag for Jammu & Kashmir, was arrested for
entering the State without a permit, which was mandatory then. He died in jail
after a month.
“The Congress has a habit of
forgetting people’s sacrifices. It has deliberately forgotten the first martyr
of free India ,”
Modi said, amid applause from the party workers who came here from Punjab ,
Himachal Pradesh and Jammu region.
In the wake of Janata Dal (U)
walking out of the NDA, the Gujarat Chief Minister spoke about the need of
allies and referred to how Mookerjee formed a non-Congress alliance of 35 MPs
to counter the policies of Nehru. He talked about uniting hearts and political
parties. “Hum rajnitik dalo ko jodne ka kaam karenge. Hum dilo ko jodne ka kaam
karenge,” said Modi.
“Time demands that we move for
peace, unity and amity (shanti, ekta and sadbhavana),” he added. Modi also
talked about the need to “heal the wounds of Kashmir ”
and connect its aspiring youth with the national mainstream for the development
of the State.
He said had Vajpayee come back to
power in 2004, the wounds of the people would have healed and there would have
been equitable development in Ladakh, Kashmir and Jammu
regions of the State. He said guns and bombs do not solve problems, development
does. Taking a swipe at the UPA Government, he said there are two heads (Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi) and the people do
not know who is genuine. “Our resolve here should be to get rid of the two
heads,” he said.
Lashing out at the Congress, he
said the future of the country is not safe in the hands of the Congress and the
youth face bleak prospects.
“I want to ask the Prime Minister
what he did to save Sarabjeet Singh. I want to ask the PM what he did when the
head of our soldier was cut off within a month they were sitting in Jaipur with
chicken biryani…” Modi said, amid cries of Bole So Nihal and Bharat Mata ki
jai.
He said, “We have to dream of a
Congress Mukt Bharat…The country is suffering. There is a competition these days
between the Rupee and Congress. Both are going down.”
Referring to the development in Gujarat ,
he said that with the same people, same rules and the same system, a change has
been brought in Gujarat and this could be done in the
rest of the country.
“I want to assure you that there
is tremendous potential for development of the country. If the potential of the
youth is realised, what could not be done in the last 60 years can be done
now,” said the Gujarat Chief Minister.
Earlier, endorsing Modi as the
prime ministerial candidate of the NDA, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal said, “We will do a Fateh (victory) rally before the actual victory. This
will not be an election but a war of independence under Modi... Independence
from hunger, poverty, unemployment, corruption,” the septuagenarian added. (24.6.2013)
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