Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Narendra
Modi launched the Bharatiya Janata Party's election campaign in south India by
reaching out to the Telugu Desam Party for an alliance as he appealed to all
non-Congress parties to come together to put an end to "dynastic rule"
of the Congress in India. Invoking the legacy of TDP founder Mr. NT Rama Rao, the
veteran leader addressing his first rally as BJP's chief poll campaign manager,
said the TDP has a huge responsibility of fulfilling NTR's dreams.
He said that, he is in Andhra
Pradesh and want to remember NTR. He gave fillip to anti-Congress politics. His
dream was not just a prosperous Telugu state, but a liberated India India
It is up to the TDP to carry
NTR's legacy forward. They have to realise their responsibility in this regard,
he said to thunderous applause from the thousands, who had gathered at Hyderbad's
Lal Bahadur Shastri stadium from early morning. The TDP was part of the BJP-led
NDA alliance from 1998 to 2004, before the Chandrababu Naidu-led party severed
ties following the defeat in Lok Sabha elections.
During his speech, Modi came
down heavily on the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh for its failure to
create jobs for the youth, and called upon the state government to emulate
Jayalalithaa's Tamil Nadu as a role model in skill development.
He said, if you don't want to
appreciate Gujarat model, it is fine. But look
at how Jayalalithaa has created jobs through skill development in your
neighboring state. Learn from her example, with some analysts describing it as
an example of growing bonhomie between the AIADMK and the BJP leading up to
next year's elections.
Attacking the Congress, Modi
said hot anti-Congress winds were blowing across the country as people were fed
up with growing corruption and misrule. He said, corruption has become all
pervasive in the UPA rule. And people want to see good governance that can be
achieved only by getting rid of the Congress. He added that, he’s confident
that Andhra Pradesh's political parties will bring a non-Congress government
and end this dynastic rule.
Praising his senior party
colleague L K Advani's fight for bringing back money stashed in foreign banks, he
lambasted the UPA government for its failure to act on it. He ridiculed the
government's monitory policy, and said when India
Chanting his pet mantra 'India
First,' Modi said, if the BJP comes to power, the holy book of the government
would be 'the Constitution of India'. However, coming with a mixed agenda and
multiple issues, Modi looked to have let down the youth, with many saying that
he highlighted the problems, but did not have any solution to offer.
While addressing the most
sensitive issue of AP division, Modi resorted to woo both the regions of
Telangana and Seemandhra, as the Congress had taken the sail out of the BJP
winds by announcing formation of Telangana last month. His chants of 'Jai
Telangana' and 'Jai Seemandhra' together failed to cut ice, many experts said
at a time when the mood among Andhraties and people from Telangana are not at
its best.
He said,
the Congress is not sincere on the issue. They say they would build a new
capital for Seemandhra in 10 years' time. If they had been sincere, they would
have started building the capital in 2004 when they committed Telangana. He
added that for the BJP, Seemandhra was as important as Telangana. "And I
hope both states will do even better than Gujarat ,"
he said.
Slamming the Congress for
creating rift between Telangana and Seemandhra, Modi said the ruling party had
done great injustice to the state at the cost of its development.
"The Congress creating
divide among people, as its policy is divisive," he lamented. And he
prescribed development as the panacea for the problem. "Development is the
only solution for all the problems and miseries," he said. He signed off
by doing a Barack Obama as he chanted 'Yes We Can, Yes We Will Do" and
asked the crowd to repeat.
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