Remembering the incident of bomb blasts at his public rally in Bihar last month, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi expressed gratitude towards Biharis at a function organised by Bihar Gujarat Maitri Sangh (BIGMAS) in Ahmedabad on Sunday and said that he was alive just because of their love.
“What I saw in Patna on October 27 was the strength of the people of Bihar and I salute them. There were bombs but people were helping the injured and returning to the public meeting. Imagine the mental power of the people of Bihar! And one need not view what happened that time only from a political view. The strength of the people was beyond that,” Gujarat Chief Minister said.
Modi said that the people of Bihar worship all forms of the Sun God and he lauded their commitment towards cleanliness. He talked about integrating people of the nation so that the nation can work together to achieve goals. He gave the example of his visit to Japan where everywhere he saw stickers of Tokyo getting the Olympic Games in 2020. Modi stated that he had gone to Japan before the games were awarded to Tokyo and the atmosphere there created a feeling that one must come to Japan for the games. He asked why we couldn’t we replicate the same in India.
He called upon the people of India to think of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary on similar lines and urged the people to come together and decide what they want to do from now. Among the many ideals of Mahatma Gandhi, one ideal that must be embraced is Mahatma Gandhi’s importance to cleanliness; he said adding that the campaign would change the image of entire country.
He described unity in diversity is India’s specialty and other nations are not blessed with such uniqueness. Modi said that the nation does not want division but it wants development. Meanwhile, former Bihar Cabinet Minister Giriraj Singh, who was instrumental in the formation of BIGMAS, said that Biharis are honoured in Gujarat under the leadership of Narendra Modi.