Hitting out at the Congress for fooling people, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said that the UPA Government has befooled the people for a decade and now when elections are round the corner they are talking about poverty.
“The Congress leaders feel every day is April fool’s day. Therefore they play with the sentiments and have been emptying their pockets for the last 10 years and now all of a sudden they are talking about eradicating poverty. They claim to remove poverty from India. If that’s so they why have they failed to improve the lifestyle of our weaker sectionsIJ” he asked while addressing a rally in Bareilly on Tuesday.
He even compared Bareilly with Rae Bareilly — the parliamentary constituency of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. It is a fact that development in Bareilly is much more as compared to Rae Bareilly, he said.
“People talk about Rae Bareilly but they forget Bareilly. Rae Bareilly has elected such strong leaders but see the development there. Roads are in a bad shape. Farmers are craving for water and the elected representatives are just visitors. In comparison to that Santosh Gangwar, the present BJP candidate has done wonderful work here,” he said.
He also asked the people of Bareilly how their lives have changed in the past 10 years and blamed the UPA for their miseries. “The UPA Government is solely to be blamed for the miseries of the people as during the past 10 years problems of the common man have only increased,” he said.
Modi also blamed the UPA Government over lack of spirit for Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan.” It is unfortunate that soldiers are getting killed by terrorists and the Government is doing nothing,” he said.
Hitting on the dismal condition of the local kite industry, Modi said: “We have taken Gujarat’s kite industry to Rs500 crore and this has helped the poor, particularly the Muslims, who are involved in the industry.
Reminding people of Sadhna’s hit song Jhoomka Gira re in Sunil Dutt starrer movie Mera Saaya, Modi said: Ab Bareilly mein jhoomka nahi SaBaKa (Sapa, Baspa and Congress) girega”.
He also sought apology from the people for being late and disclosed that he was made to sit at Delhi Airport for more than 2.30 hours as his chopper was not given permission to take off.