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Modi charges Cong with failure on development of rural areas
Samalji (Gujarat), Oct 19: Making a departure from his recent attacks on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today trained his gun on the Congress charging it with `gross failure` on development of rural and tribal dominated areas.
Samalji (Gujarat), Oct 19: Making a departure from his recent attacks on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today trained his gun on the Congress charging it with "gross failure" on development
of rural and tribal dominated areas.
In his hard-hitting speech, minutes before flagging off the sixth leg of the Gaurav Yatra from this tribal hamlet in Sabarkanta district, he charged the Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra with failure to rehabilitate affected people from Narmada project region.
"In the process, they are prohibiting Gujarat government's much desired intention to have 110 metre Sardar Sarovar Dam which could have helped generation of adequate power to feed tribal regions including Sabarkanta district", Modi said. He ridiculed a trip by Shankarsinh Vaghela and Shivraj Patil to the US saying "I know you are not going there for votes. Nor can you fetch votes for Bush or bin Laden".
Referring to Pakistan President Musharraf's "covert and overt" anti-Gujarat and anti-India design, he said people of Gujarat wonder whether "there is some connection with Congress delegation to the US and Pakistani design."
He said Congress owes an answer to people of Gujarat on this.
Bureau Report
In his hard-hitting speech, minutes before flagging off the sixth leg of the Gaurav Yatra from this tribal hamlet in Sabarkanta district, he charged the Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra with failure to rehabilitate affected people from Narmada project region.
"In the process, they are prohibiting Gujarat government's much desired intention to have 110 metre Sardar Sarovar Dam which could have helped generation of adequate power to feed tribal regions including Sabarkanta district", Modi said. He ridiculed a trip by Shankarsinh Vaghela and Shivraj Patil to the US saying "I know you are not going there for votes. Nor can you fetch votes for Bush or bin Laden".
Referring to Pakistan President Musharraf's "covert and overt" anti-Gujarat and anti-India design, he said people of Gujarat wonder whether "there is some connection with Congress delegation to the US and Pakistani design."
He said Congress owes an answer to people of Gujarat on this.
Bureau Report