After a gap of about half decade, Haryana BJP succeeded to pull in a crowd of around two lakh people at Rewari for ‘Purv Sainik Rally’ on Sunday.Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi addressed his first rally at Rewari after being anointed the BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections.
The rally was attended by around two lakh people, mostly ex-servicemen, at the Secretariat Grounds in Rewari, 90 km from Delhi. Former Army chief, Gen (retd) VK Singh also attended the rally.
BJP, while gearing up for the lok Sabha elections scheduled for next year, received a massive response from people across Haryana who thronged the venue to have a glimpse of Modi and to listen to his vision for the country.
Earlier, ‘Vijay Sankalp Rally’ of BJP had taken place at Jind on March 16, 2008 under the leadership of former Deputy Prime Minister lK Advani, in which reportedly more than two lakh people, mostly farmers participated from across the state. “Vijay Sankalp Rally” was addressed BJP veteran and the then NDAs Prime Ministerial candidate lK Advani alongwith BJP national president Rajnath Singh at that time.
Meanwhile, ‘Purav Sainik Rally’ organized on Sunday at Rewari, pulled in large number of youth from across the state.The rally began with number of slogans including, ‘Narendra Modi Kamal Nishan, Maang Raha Hindustan’, ‘Dekho Dekho kaun aya Bharat Maa Ka Sher Aya’.
local people showed overwhelming response to BJP’s rally and all roads leading to the rally ground witnessed huge traffic snarls. looking at the large crowd, Modi also boasted ‘In camero ki who capacity nahi hai ki woh is rally ko cover kar sakein’ (these cameras do not have such capacity to cover the huge crowd here).”