Narendra Modi’s Purnia rally live

Patna, 10 March 2014

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is going to address a rally at Purniya in Bihar today on Ranbhoomi Ground which has a capacity to accommodate 1.5 to two lakh people.

Modi’s last rally in Bihar was in Muzaffarpur where LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan shared the dais after his party’s alliance with the BJP was announced.

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In a scathing attack on both Congress and Third Front parties, BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Monday hit out at other political parties for working to ‘save’ each other. Modi said, “Third Front is always formed to save the Congress party.”

Mocking at the Third Front Modi said, “Third Front rises when poll bugle is sounded. Third Front parties have either supported Congress or saved them.”

Sharpening his attack on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Modi said, “Bihar government has played vote bank politics.” “Bihar CM thinks there no one more capable than him in the entire country,” he said. “Third Front leaders have stitched new clothes in the hope of being PM,” Modi said.

Taking a dig at Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, Modi said, “You keep making allegations, but are not willing to answer.” Modi also raked up the scams in UPA tenure during the last 10 years.

“Your party has given mobile phones. But, what about the electricity to charge those phones?” Modi asked. Addressing a rally in Bihar’s Purnia, Modi said, “We need schools not on paper but on the ground. Schools in Bihar don’t have computers.” “In Gujarat, 71% schools have computers,” he said while pitching the Gujarat growth model.

On Sunday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar slammed BJP for hobnobbing with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in Maharashtra saying the people of Bihar will reject the party’s collusive politics of communalism and regional chauvinism.

“Bihar mein hunkar and Maharashtra me abhaar (roar in Bihar and thanks giving in Maharashtra),” Kumar said on a Facebook post while taking potshots at the BJP leadership, including Modi for thanking the MNS for deciding against putting up candidates against it in Maharashtra during the general elections.

“It’s an insult to Bihar and its people,” Kumar said, adding they would oppose it tooth and nail.

The JD(U) leader hit out at his erstwhile ally for providing legitimacy to those trying to divide the country on regional and linguistic lines and said such divisive elements should be discouraged and isolated.