Press Note Eng Dt: 11/09/2012 Modi’s Rhetoric

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Press Note                                                                      11^th September, 2012

• Gujarat Chief Minister who is always vibrant for his favored few big industrialists’ takes out Yatra during elections times.
• The CM has been exposed before the public and so he is indulging in rhetoric.
• Central government was willing to discuss report of CAG in the parliament, but Gujarat CM is not ready for it.
• In his election speeches last time, he had said that farmers will get petrol from water taps. Next elections are approaching, and farmers are not even getting water.
• BJP is politicising the coal issue of the CAG report. Same CAG has found corruption of Rs 16706.99 crore of the Gujarat CM in one year.
• BJP is demanding resignation of the central government on the basis of CAG report. Why the BJP’s Gujarat Chief Minister is not quitting when CAG has said that he has indulged in corruption by providing cheaper gas to Adani.
• People of Gujarat will dislodge the CM from Gandhinagar for not giving them house during the last 10 years.
• When Haren Pandya was killed, BJP was at power in Gujarat and the centre. Still culprits were not caught.
• He is talking about SIT in the cases of others, why does he not ask for SIT in Haren Pandya case.
• Haren Pandya’s father and RSS leader had said that people arrested in the Haren pandya case were innocent and the real culprit was CM.
• Why Gujarat farmers are not provided adequate power supply?
• Why is he silent over the fact that 12 lakh farmers do not have power connections even as he boasts of development through electricity?
• By delivering speech in Hindi before a crowd of Gujarati speaking people he has behaved like “Mungeri Lal showing his Delhi dreams.

Gujarat Chief Minister is always vibrant for his favored few big industrialists. However, when elections approache, he goes to public and makes misleading and provocative speeches. What he said today at Bechraji, nothing of that is consistent, Leader of Opposition Shaktisinh Gohil said today.

CAG report was tabled at the centre and the central government invited discussion on it in the parliament. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for open discussion on coal scandal. On the other hand, Modi did not allow CAG report to be tabled in the Gujarat Assembly till the last day because it was full of scandals of his government. And it was tabled in the house only after suspending the entire opposition. Why was he not ready for discussion on CAG report, Gohil asked.

CM has demanded a CBI probe into scandals reported in the CAG report of the centre. Now people of Gujarat want to know why he does not ask for a similar investigation into corruption inGujarat, Which amounts to Rs 16706.99 Crore in one year. Why is the CM silent over CAG’s observation that his favourite industrialist Adani has been benefited by cheaper gas which was meant for public?

People have not forgotten his previous election rhetorics. In his elections speeches, Modi had claimed thatGujarathas found 20 TCF oil and gas in the KG basin. He had said that there will be a time when petrol and diesel will flow out of the water taps of the farmer ofGujarat. Farmer of Gujarat will not ferry milk cans but he will ferry petrol containers.

All his lies have been exposed. There is a corruption of Rs 10,000 Crore in KG basin. There is no drop of oil or a bubble of gas. This is because the CM himself has siphoned GSPC money. He has not done anything for the public during the last 12 years. Now when winds of change are blowing and the people have started looking towards the Congress, the CM is petrified and is using foul language. He is making all kinds of allegations against the prime minister but he should restrain his own language. He did not bother about providing houses to homeless people of the state. He has made tall claims in advertisements which are exposed in the information obtained through RTIs.

Farmers need electricity during day time, but they get electricity during the night. He has stated about electricity to farmers for 16 to 18 hours a day, but they never get adequate power supply. Favourite industrialists get electricity connection on demand at Government expense, while six lakh farmers of dark zone areas are waiting for electric connections for years. Even other farmers are waiting for connections since 1994-95. Now when elections are approaching, he is making all kinds of announcements driven by vote politics. Why did he not think about creating new districts of Chhota Udaipur and Somnath all through these years?

Gujarat Housing Board was abolished and slum clearance board was also closed down. Since last 10 years the CM did not even think about giving houses to people of the state but when Congress launched its rational scheme “Ghar nu ghar” developed after consulting economists and other experts then the CM is appealing women not to take forms for the scheme. Still lakhs of women took the forms and the Congress is going to fulfill its promise when it comes to power. The CM did not wake for so many years and now he is trying to give chewing gum to the people. Gujaratis are simple hearted but now they know CM’s foul play.

Favours were given to big industrialists. In the past there was reservation for jobs for Gujaratis both in technical field as well as general. But Modi has given complete exemption from this to industrialists and as a result the youth of the state are jobless. Other developed states always take care that people of their state are employed and that too on full salary not on contract basis but here Gujaratis are being exploited and the CM is completely silent on this issue.

There is no need to raise the height ofNarmadadam even by an inch. We are getting sufficient amount of water. But this water is going waste into the sea. Canal works have not been completed in the last 10 years and the farmers are suffering due to lack of water. Modi who is indulging in politics in the name of cow has given away 3.30 lakh hectare gauchar land to his favourite industrialists. As a result there is a situation where farmers cannot take care of the old animals. There is no need for any law. It is a known fact that a farmer or cattle owner would never sell his gaucher till the animal died but here the CM has started selling gaucher land and consequently, animal owners are forced to take their animals to slaughter houses. Modi is responsible for this sin.

When former Minister Haren Pandya was killed BJP was ruling both at the state and centre. Advaniji, whom Modi calls his guru, was deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister. But the people who were arrested were falsely implicated, culprits are other persons. Haren Pandya’s father who was RSS leader at one time in Ahmedabad always used to say that Modi was responsible for Haren’s murder. No one listened to him. Now two honourable judges of the Gujarat High Court have made it clear that those arrested in the case were falsely arrested. Gujarat Chief Minister talks about the entire country. Why does he not admit that wrong people were implicated in Haren Pandya case when Advani was the Home Minister and why does he not demand SIT of impartial officers from the Supreme Court to nail real culprits.

The question is that people ofGujaratare facing many problems. The CM keeps many commandos for his security but a small child or a woman wearing a mangalsutra is not safe. Modi is not ready to speak a word about law and order in the state. Farmers in the state have committed suicide and the CM is responsible for this sin of suicide. In the past during draught the government immediately used to waive off revenue, gave seeds, distributed cash doles and the farmers were assured that the government was with them in this hour of crisis. But the CM had a lavish programme at Junagadh while the farmers of Saurasthra were facing draught. He did not utter even a word about the farmers. Earlier in such situations cattle Camps used to be started, fodder distributed, subsidies were given to gaushalas but Modi has not done anything.

For the coming elections BJP workers are extorting money from public. This is hard earned money of the people of the state. Still the CM is silent about the issue in his political speeches. It is like Mungerilal na hassen sapana that the BJP sees the chair of Prime Minister every now and then and makes such statements. The CM spoke in Hindi inGujaratat a function where crowd was Gujarati speaking. It shows his desperation for becoming Prime Minister of the country. But his dream would never be fulfilled because people of the country are not with him. NDA constituents are also not ready to support him. People ofGujaratalso now know that support of all, development of all is not true. Modi takes support of all but development is of only few of his favourites. This development is not for common Gujarati and therefore people of the state will support Congress in the coming elections. The writing on the wall is clear and this has upset Modi which reflects in his speech at Bahucharaji in which he has insulted the culture of Gujarat, Gohil added.

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