Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Modi invokes Mughals while attacking 'dynastic politics'

Modi invokes Mughals while attacking 'dynastic politics'


 BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate
Narendra Modi today compared the conditions under the
"dynastic politics" to those during the Mughal era.
"Due to the dynastic politics, the ordinary people today
are living in the way people lived under the regime of
Mughals," Modi said, addressing a rally here in western
Maharashtra.
Further, targeting Congress president Sonia Gandhi and
Rahul Gandhi, he said, "Shehzade-ji, Madam Sonia-ji, once the
slogan was 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'; today the jawans and the
kisans (farmers) are dying. What have you given the country in
60 years? Now your slogan is 'mar jawan, mar kisan' (kill
jawan, kill kisan)."
He said the leaders of the ruling Congress and NCP in
Maharashtra always talked about King Shivaji without really
understanding what he stood for.
"If they really wanted to learn something from him, he had
created an excellent example by making water available to the
farmers. They could have learnt from him."
On farmers' suicides in Maharashtra, Modi said, "When
there is a hailstorm, farmers die, when there is a drought,
farmers die... Two to three people in one family are
committing suicide. My heart pains for these farmers."
He said that solving the water problem was the key. "When
I first became the Chief Minister, six to seven thousand
villages (in Gujarat) had to be supplied drinking water by
tankers. We put in pipelines and about 9,000 villages now get
pure drinking water from Narmada," he said, adding that these
pipelines are so big that "the Chief Minister of Maharashtra
can drive a Maruti car with his family through them".


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