Ahmedabad, 19 September 2012

Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi and union HRD minister Shri Kapil Sibal will share a stage this Saturday in Gandhinagar in a stone-laying function of new building Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Gandhinagar.

While Shri Sibal will be the Chief Guest of the function, Shri Modi will preside the function. According to the details of the function available to us, Shri Modi will speak first and immediately after his speech, Shri Sibal will speak.

There’s very much possibility of exchange of words between two leaders during the function.

Shri Sibal may present a new Akash tablet to Shri Modi during the function, and this may attract the attention of national media.

In first week of this month Kapil Sibal had said that he would present the version-2 of Aakash tablet to Narendra Modi on a public platform in the state on September 22. He had said this in response to questions by journalists over Modi’s remark on Akash tablet.

Taking a swipe at the Congress in Gujarat for its promise to provide free laptops if it came to power, Modi had said earlier the much hyped low-cost ‘Aakash’ tablets promised by the Centre have not come down to earth yet even after people have paid money for it. Modi’s criticism of Congress had come against the backdrop of Gujarat Congress announcing free laptops to college students if voted to power in the Assembly elections due by year-end.

“Kash (If only) this Aakash tablet could land on earth, then the lie (promise of free laptops by state Congress) they (Congress) are spreading now would hold some weight,” Modi had said in a sarcasm aimed at blunting Congress’ poll promise.

Sibal had in response said,”I am surprised at Narendrabhai’s statement. This is such a venture that all over the world, it is being talked about but not so in Gujarat because we think about children 24×7.

“But in Modi’s Gujarat what happened to the future of the children. He is maintaining silence since 2002…Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart. In the next five to seven years, each child will have the Aakash tablet.”

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