Congress, NGOs running one-point programme to stop me: Narendra Modi(video)

Pathankot, 25 April 2014

Narendra Modi today accused Congress of joining hands with NGOs to run a one-point programme to stop him from coming to power but said they will fail due to the “hurricane” of support for BJP.

“Normally, political opponents get together to remove the ruling party but it is for the first time that the ruling party in association with NGOs and others has run a one-point programme not to save the government or form the government but only to stop Modi from coming to power,” he said at a rally here.

Attacking Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi, the BJP leader said, “This government run by mother-son has destroyed the country” and claimed the Congress will be decimated in the election.

“This election can’t save the government at Delhi….. No one can save it, but now Congress has changed its strategy in last 10 days after it came to know that it is not possible to repeat its performance again. Now they have decided to create obstacles to stop Modi from coming to power at the centre.”

Exuding confidence that BJP-led NDA will form the next government, he said, “There is hurricane ( of support in favour of BJP) and Congress leaders are aware where they will go after May 16 (date of announcement of results)”.

“Congress leaders are shivering,” he said adding that he was confident that Congress and UPA will even fail to open account in many states and their tally will be restricted to single digit in all states.

“Congress will not be able to touch the double figure mark in any of the states,” he said.

The BJP prime ministerial candidate was addressing ‘Bharat Vijay rally’ in border area in Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency where actor-turned politician Vinod Khanna is contesting. Polling will take place here on April 30 along with 12 other constituencies of the state.

Khanna is pitted against Punjab Congress President Pratap Singh Bajwa, the sitting MP from Gurdaspur.

In India’s 60 years of history, there has not been such a “bad, corrupt and defamed government”, Modi alleged.

He tried to woo the farmers of Punjab, which is the leading agrarian state, by promising that if NDA comes to power, it will ensure remunerative prices to them by “adding 50 per cent profit into the input cost”.

He also said that a major irrigation scheme Pradhan Mantri Krishi Seechayee Yojana will also be launched.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal were among others who spoke on the occasion.

Nation can’t be run by ‘oxygen from mother and son’: Narendra Modi at Hoshiarpur

In a fresh salvo at the Gandhi family, Narendra Modi today said the country could not be run by a government working on “oxygen from mother and son” and a “dead, feeble and fractured” regime was not needed.

“The country needs a strong government at the Centre to pull it out of the destruction done by UPA. A dead, feeble, fractured government is not the need of the hour,” the BJP prime ministerial candidate said at an election rally at Hoshiarpur.

“The country can’t be run by a government which is working on oxygen from mother and son,” he said, without naming Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

Modi said, “In the past 10 years, she (Sonia) has only worked on securing a better future for her son (Rahul)…she is only worried about his future and not about the country.”

“The mother and son have destroyed the country,” he said, adding, “Congress has played fraud with the people.”

He also took a jibe at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying, “I am surprised that Manmohan Singh worked here (Punjab)…he did teaching work…but he did not care to pay back to the place to which he belongs.”

He said people were fed up with “hollow promises” of the UPA government. “My intentions are clear…I will bring change in your life,” he said.

On the issue of black money stashed away in foreign banks, Modi said a BJP-led NDA government would bring this money back.

“I am surprised that people in Congress start shivering whenever there is talk of bringing back black money,” he said.

In an apparent reference to Amarinder Singh, he said, “A former Congress chief minister had been exposed after it became known that he had account in a foreign bank.”

“From where did this money come…today or tomorrow he will have to answer,” he said.

At Pathankot, Modi accused Congress of joining hands with NGOs to run a one-point programme to stop him from coming to power, but said they would fail due to the “hurricane” of support for BJP.

In the backdrop of inflow of drugs from Pakistan into Punjab, he cautioned that India’s enemies who failed to break up the country, have resorted to narco-terrorism as part of their nefarious designs to destroy the youth.