Muzaffarpur: In ‘Hunkar’ rally of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at Muzaffarnagar attacked his arch rival and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Modi call Nitish Kumar a hypocrite and saying the state had become a safe haven for terrorists.
He indirectly attacked on Nitish Kumar and said that the Bihar chief minister was a “hypocrite” who met him with affection in a closed room and ate together but feared shaking hands in public. He also added that “People pardon your mistakes but not hypocrisy.”
Modi had compared Nitish’s “hypocrisy” with foe-turned-friend Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan’s “openness”.
Modi said, “Ram Vilas Paswan remained courteous after leaving the NDA. He didn’t shy away from being photographed with me.”
Notify that Ram Vilas Paswan had broke up with Lalu Prasad-led RJD and returned to the NDA after 12 years. He had left the BJP-led NDA in 2002; criticising Modi’s handling of the communal riots in Gujarat in which more than 1200 people, most of them Muslims, had been killed.
PM candidate of BJP, Narendra Modi said, “Hunkar is not to show others in poor light, but to work for rights and for the good of the country and to replace a defunct leadership.”
He said “those who talked of secularism” were willing to condone the damage done to India by anti-nationals by focusing their energies on “stop-Modi” mission.
He also said, “It is a shame they can’t take up the challenge to fight terrorism. It was an issue which should have united political groups, but that has not happened.”
Modi claimed that Bihar has become a haven for terrorists due to vote bank politics of the government which has not adopted tough policies against them to appease some people.
He said, “You may not like Modi or BJP but those who died in the blasts were also from Bihar.”
Modi said on the alliance with Paswan that the NDA is going to grow by the day and the worries of others are going to grow too. “They used to call BJP Bania-Brahmins party. They are surprised that a man from a backward caste is the PM nominee.”
Notify that entry of Paswan into NDA is expected to swing 5% dalit vote. He has been offered seven Lok Sabha seats to contest in the state.
Modi also criticised the Third Front, which he dismissed as the one “that crops up every five years and whose job appears to be saving the Congress”. The Third Front, he said, only sows confusion.
In his speech, Paswan declared he was committed to making Modi as the next prime minister of the country.
Paswan said, “There is a strong Narendra Modi wave in the country. And caste no longer seems to be a factor. All sections of society consider Narendra bhai as the best leader… he also comes from a poor family.”
Bureau Report
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