BJP’s prime ministerial face Narendra Modi took Telangana region by storm on Tuesday, urging the people to send maximum number of BJP members to Parliament in order to ensure that the new-born Telangana State is fully taken care of by them.
Addressing a mammoth rallies across the region, Modi said that there was no doubt that the Congress-led UPA Government in New Delhi is on its way out and the BJP will form the next Government. “No force on earth can stop the BJP from forming the next Government in Delhi,” he said.
“By giving more MPs to the BJP lays a pipeline between Delhi and Telangana so whatever I send could reach you,” Modi said. “Have full faith in this coalition”.
During his whirlwind day-long tour in the region, he shared the dais in Nizamabad with the film star Pavan Kalyan.
He said that elections are important for the entire country, but more so for Telangana.
“These elections are going to lay the foundation for the future of Telangana State”, he said. “I have come here to tell you that I am ready to take the future of Telangana in my hands,” he said.
In a scathing attack on the Congress party, Modi punctured its claim of delivering Telangana State.
Terming the Telugu language a child and culture as its mother he said the BJP wanted the Telugu spirit to flourish and both Telangana and Seemandhra to progress. “Congress is a doctor, which has delivered a child but killed its mother,” he said.
Giving an emotional touch to his speech, Modi reminded the people of Telangana that it was because of the sacrifices of 1,100 youth that Telangana State became possible. Without naming the Congress party he said, “The people who were claiming that they gave Telangana, are lying. Telangana was not given to you, but you achieved it with lots of sacrifices,” he added.
Warning the people against voting for Congress, he said, “If you vote for the same people who have cheated you it would be an insult to the sacrifice of those 1,100 people, their mothers and their families”.
He said that Telangana needs a Government in New Delhi, which will take care of it like a new-born baby. “I assure you that I can take care of Telangana very effectively. Give your future only in those hands which can make Telangana stand on its feet in the next five years”.
BJP leader also promised to solve the problems of hundreds of thousands of youths from Telangana working in the Gulf countries. “The Congress Government in Delhi failed to protect their interests,” he said.
Modi also tried to make “Telugu self respect” to target Congress party. He reminded the people how, as Congress general secretary, Rajiv Gandhi insulted then Dalit Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh T Anjaiah in Hyderabad.
Similarly he said that Nehru-Gandhi family had such a deep hatred for Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao that he was insulted after his death. “They did not allow his cremation in Delhi and his family was forced to take his body to Hyderabad. For ten years they were in power but they never visited Rao’s Samadhi,” he added asking the people whether they can trust such a party.
He blamed the “Mother-son Government” for all the ills in the country including the incidents when Indian soldiers were beheaded by Pakistan army and farmers suicides. “The Congress has turned Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” slogan into “Mar Jawan Mar Kisan,” he said.
Modi also targeted the Telangana Rashtra Samiti as a “family party” pointing out that four members of one family were contesting elections. “These are the people whose purpose is only to loot the State. We can not allow the new State to die for them,” he said without taking the name of TRS or its cheif Chandrasekhar Rao.
Nizamabad is witnessing a keen contest between sitting Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud, Y lakshminarayana of the BJP and K Kavitha of TRS.
Karimnagar was the second stop of Modi where former union minister Ch Vidyasagar Rao of BJP is locked in a three cornered contest with sitting Congress MP Ponam Prabhakar and Vinod Kumar of TRS.
Significantly he did not mention BJP’s alliance partner by name in his address at Nizamabad rally, though TDP candidate from neighbouring Adilabad Ramesh Rathode and other TDP leaders were present on the occasion.
However TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu shared the dais with Modi at Mahbubnagar and Hyderabad.
“My slogan and Modi’s slogan is the same — development”, said Naidu.