Making an appeal just on the lines of Subash Chandra Bose that `You give me strong government and I will give you strong India’, Bharatiya Janta Party prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi vowed to cleanse the political system and Parliament from criminal elements if he comes to power and said his first job will be to set up a panel to probe pending criminal cases against the new MPs.
He also attacked the dynasty rule while targeting both Congress and Samajwadi Party.
Modi made the above call while making a hectic campaigning in support of Party candidates from Hardoi, Etah and Mathura respectively on Monday. He said that he will ensure that all offenders are sent to jail after asking the Supreme Court to hear the cases against them expeditiously. Modi's promise to crack down on MPs with criminal antecedents across party lines in a bid to decriminalize politics and Parliament came at a poll rally here. "I have decided that when a new government is formed after May 16, I will set up a committee to find out what cases are pending against whom. (lok Sabha) candidates submit in their form during filing nominations the details of cases against them. I will not discriminate in it. I will not spare even the BJP and NDA candidates."I will ask the Supreme Court to hear the cases fast.
Those, who have committed crime will go to jail and their seats will go to candidates with clean image. No accused will dare to fight polls. Who says that this cleansing cannot happenIJ I have come to cleanse politics. It is necessary to free Indian democracy from criminalisation," he said. launching a hard-hitting attack on SP, BSP and Congress, Narendra Modi said the "power game by the clan of three parties" is responsible for the poor plight of UP and the nation even as he ridiculed Rahul Gandhi for visiting homes of the poor like tourists who
visit Taj Mahal. Playing up his tea-vendor image, the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate also sought to contrast it with those "born with a silver spoon in their mouth" and made an oblique reference to his OBC origin as he reached to voters in the Hindi heartland. Alleging that poverty is a "tourist destination" for Gandhi, Modi said, "Whenever he goes for this, he is accompanied by a crew of television cameras. He picks up a child in his lap for a good snap and immediately after the photo session is over, the child is put back on the ground." Seeking to contrast it with his own "poor" childhood, the BJP's PM pick made an attempt to hardsell his tea-vendor image, he said, "I am born in poverty. I know how it feels during a cold winter night. I remember people used to slap me on my face, whenever the tea served by me used to be cold.
The scars still remain." Hitting out at those who "mock" his childhood and poverty, Gujarat Chief Minister said, "I have no regrets that I was born in a poor or backward family. I feel sad when leaders of SP, BSP and Congress make mockery of it and say whether a tea vendor can run the country. This shows the mentality of these leaders. They have become so haughty that they mock poverty. This does not concern Modi. "What is under question is the mentality of theseleaders, who mock my poverty, my childhood every now and then. They should hear it out. I have sold tea and am proud of it. I have not done anything like selling the nation".
Modi further said that "While the country has been destroyed by the governments of mother and son, Uttar Pradesh has been destroyed by a father-son government."
Modi claimed that on one hand there is a father-son duo while on the other hand is Behenji (Mayawati)...they waste their whole tenure of five years in teaching a lesson to each other. "And mother and son (Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi) simply add fuel to the fire, inflame it. This clan of SP, BSP and Congress is thriving here in this manner. Enough of this game of power has continued. Now give me a chance to serve you," Modi called while seeking support.
Accusing both Congress and SP for practicing dynastic politics and nepotism, the BJP leader was quite acerbic in his criticism of Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. "For them all that matters is dynasty and nepotism. And now even even the extended family is being covered. They are those, who are not ready to recognize the power of the community beyond their family members.
"These people, who think that that only their sons and daughters will do something and are concerned only with them or their uncle-aunt are insulting the future of Uttar Pradesh," he said.