Launching the Lok Sabha election campaign of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra from Pune, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday evening alleged that a Comptroller Auditor General report has found a huge sum of Rs 50,000 crore unaccounted for and “missing” from the ‘Central government coffers’.

“The country wants to know from Prime Minster Manmohan Singh about this money that has simply vanished,” said Modi.

Training his guns on Singh, Modi said the country should know whether the huge sum of “missing” money purportedly mentioned in the CAG report was being used for “election purposes” by the ruling party or handed over to some “preferred NGOs”.

“Daal me kuch kala hai” (There is something fishy about this), he charged.

Targeting the prime minister, whom he described as a reputed economist, Modi alleged it was intriguing that the Harshad Mehta stock scam had happened when Singh was the Finance Minister in the Narsimha Rao government.

“Today, when he is Prime Minister, the ‘Satyam’ fiasco has surfaced. Why are such things happening when he is at the helm? Is it the result of his economic policies or something else,” Modi asked addressing a large gathering of more than 1 lakh youths.

Modi said that the NCP chief Sharad Pawar had failed to anticipate the
Congress gameplan of shutting the doors on a Maharashtrian forever for the post of Prime Minister by ensuring a Maharashtrian as the President of India.

Modi said, “Pawar has walked into the Congress trap by becoming party to the move of having a Maharashtrian as the President. In doing so, Pawar has destroyed the dream of all Maharashtrians of having a Marathi person as PM.”

According to Modi, had Pawar been so keen on having a Marathi person as PM, the Maratha strongman would have played his cards well during the President’s poll. “However, Pawar failed to realise the Congress gameplan,” he said.

“All these days when I would look at Maharashtra politics as an outsider, I was under the impression that Pawar has the political sagacity to anticipate such checkmate moves, but he couldn’t realise the game,” Modi said. “Pawar would do well even if he manages to appoint a captain of the BCCI’s cricket team,” he added with a touch of sarcasm.

The Gujarat CM’s reference to the issue comes in the backdrop of Pawar’s prime ministerial ambitions and the latter’s oft-repeated remark that a Maharashtrian should become the PM and also in context with Pawar’s move to cosy up with Hindutva outfits like the Shiv Sena, which is supportive of the idea.

Modi’s 45-minute speech was high on emotions and rhetoric as he slammed the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the centre as well as the Democratic Government in the state for “miserably failing” to meet the people’s aspirations.

Modi singled out development and security as the key issues of his campaign talk. “The country needs security as well as development,” he said, adding, “the politics of vote bank, played out by the Congress and its allies, was leading the country nowhere.” There was no alternative to the politics of development to ensure security and development, he added.

Modi criticised the UPA government for failing to effectively tackle terrorism as well as Naxalism and went on to describe the government as spineless. He also focused on other issues like price rise, economic policies, corruption and scams and failure to tackle Bangladeshi infiltration issue to justify his criticism.

“The Congress will have to be accountable for all its blunders in the last five years and people want a change,” he said and exhorted the party youth to become the vehicle of this change by resolving to bring the BJP-led government at the centre and alter the country’s fate. He said, “Terrorism has to be dealt with in the same language that the terrorists believe and use. For that, a strong-willed government is imperative,” he said.

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