Hyderabad: BJP’s Prime Ministerial face Narendra Modi on Tuesday took Telangana region by storm, urging people to send maximum number of BJP members to parliament to ensure that the newborn Telangana state is fully taken care of by him.
Addressing mammoth rallies across the region on Tuesday, Modi said that there was no doubt that the Congress-led UPA government in New Delhi was on the way out and the BJP was going to form the next government. “No force on earth can stop the BJP from forming the next government in Delhi,” he said.
“By giving more MPs to the BJP lay a pipeline between Delhi and Telangana so whatever I send could reach you,” Modi said. “Have full faith in the coalition.”
During his whirlwind day-long tour of the region, he shared the dais with the filmstar Pavan Kalyan in Nizamabad and addressed a huge gathering.
He said elections were important for the entire country, but more so for Telangana. “These are the elections which are going to lay the foundation for the future of Telangana state,” he said. “I have come here to tell you that I am ready to take the future of Telangana in my hand,” he said.
In a scathing attack on Congress party, Modi punctured its claim of delivering Telangana state. “Congress is a doctor, which delivered a child but killed the mother,” he said. Terming the Telugu language and culture as the mother he said the BJP wanted the Telugu spirit to flourish and both Telangana and Seemandhra to progress.
Giving an emotional touch to his address, Modi reminded the people of Telangana that it was because of the sacrifice of 1,100 youth that Telangana state became possible. Without naming Congress party he said, “the people who were claiming that they gave Telangana are lying. Telangana was not given to you, but you achieved with a lot of sacrifices,” he said.
Warning the people against voting for Congress, he said, “if you vote for the same people it would mean insulting the sacrifice of 1,100 people, their mothers and their families.”
He said Telangana needs a government in New Delhi, which will take care of it as a new born baby is taken care of by mother. “I assure you that I can take care of Telangana very effectively. Give your future only in those hands which will make Telangana stand on its feet in next five years.”
BJP leader also promised to solve the problems of hundreds of thousands of youth of Telangana working in Gulf countries. “Congress government in Delhi failed to protect their interest,” he said.
Modi also tried to make “Telugu self respect” to target Congress party. He reminded the people how as Congress general secretary Rajiv Gandhi had insulted then Dalit Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh T Anjaiah in Hyderabad. Similarly he said that Nehru Gandhi family had such a deep hatred for Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao that he was insulted after his death. “They did not allow his cremation in Delhi and his family was forced to take his body to Hyderabad. For ten years they were in power but they never visited Rao’s Samadhi,” he said asking the people whether they can trust such a party.
He blamed the “government of mother and son” for all the ills in the country including the incidents of Pakistan severing the head of Indian soldiers and suicides by the farmers. “Congress has turned Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” slogan in to “Mar Jawan Mar Kisan”, he said.
Modi also targeted the Telangana Rashtra Samiti as a “family party” pointing out that four members of one family were contesting elections. “These are the people whose purpose is only to loot the state. We cannot allow the new state to die for them,” he said without taking the name of TRS or its president Chandrasekhar Rao.
Nizamabad is witnessing a keen contest between sitting Congress MP Madhu Yashki Goud, Y Lakshminarayana of the BJP and K Kavitha of TRS.
Karimnagar was the second stop of Modi where former union minister Ch Vidyasagar Rao of BJP is locked in a three cornered contest with sitting Congress MP Ponam Prabhakar and Vinod Kumar of TRS.
Significantly he did not mention BJP’s alliance partner by name in his address at Nizamabad rally, though TDP candidate from neighbouring Adilabad Ramesh Rathode and other TDP leaders were present on the occasion.
However, TDP President N Chandrababu Naidu shared the dais with Modi at Mahbubnagar and Hyderabad.
“My slogan and Modi’s slogan is the same — ‘development’,” said Naidu.
