Making a fervent appeal to the people to bring “change” in Uttar Pradesh by voting the BJP to power and reject parivarvad (nepotism), “arrogance”, “casteism” and “goondaism,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said if given the mandate to rule the State, his party would accomplish 50 years of pending work in five years.
Addressing a huge rally here at the Parade Ground at the end of the two-day National Executive meeting of the party, Modi said recent polls verdicts, particularly a clear win in Assam, have indicated a change in UP and it was time to end the “contract of loot between the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.”
He asked all attending the meeting to switch on the lights of their mobile phones to felicitate people of Assam for giving their mandate to the BJP to rule the State.
BJP president Amit Shah and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh also addressed the rally ahead of Modi’s speech. BJP veterans lK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi along with Central Ministers and Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled States also attended the meeting.
Earlier, addressing the concluding session of the National Executive meeting, Modi asked his party and the cadre to work for bringing development and change. He said people were no longer satisfied with “mere sloganeering” but observe if the country was growing strong or not.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who briefed the media on the PM’s concluding remarks in the meeting, said, Modi gave seven points which are relevant for the party and workers to follow. The seven points are: seva bhav (sense of service), santulan (balance), sanyam (patience), samanvay, (coordination) sakaratmak (positivity) samvedna (sensitivity) and samvad (dialogue).
After the National Executive meeting, Modi along with top party leaders, reached the Parade Ground to address the public, from where he sounded the poll bugle.
Amidst loud clapping from the audience, Modi accused political rivals the SP and the BSP of having “a tacit understanding” of not probing each others’ corruption cases when in power.
In a speech full of interactive phases, Prime Minister asked questions and sought answers from the public. The PM asked the people “how many corruption cases” were lodged by the SP against the BSP even though when in Opposition the former had made several allegations against the latter. “Now, Mayawati accuses the SP. Unko bhi kuch nahin hoga, dono main jugal bandi hain. UP maain contract chalta hain,” he quipped.
Stepping up the attack against both the parties Modi said, “Development is not possible in UP if this contract of loot is not ended” in the State. Modi again asked the audience whether they got the benefit of Rs 1 lakh crore allocated by the Centre to the Sate and quipped, “pata nahin, pahuchta hain ya nahin.”
He said if every penny is utilized properly UP could become the number one State.
He said progress and development has been achieved in all the BJP-ruled States and appealed to the people to give BJP a chance in UP adding they could kick out the BJP Government if power was used for self-perpetuation. “lath mar ke nikal dena”, Prime Minister said in Hindi amidst loud cheers.
In an effort to connect with the people of Allahabad, Modi used symbolism of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati and called the city the land of “Nishad Raj” as he reminded them that once University of Allahabad was known as “the Oxford of the East”.
Modi said to bring UP on the high road of development people will have to put an end to “bhai-bhatija vad”, “Parivarvad” , “goondaism” and casteism and appealed to the people to bring out change by voting out SP rule and put the BJP in the saddle.