New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi returned to the National Capital Region (NCR) on Thursday to campaign for his party at rallies where he emphasized the growing aspirations of the Indian electorate and the failure of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government to generate jobs and control prices.
The Congress has promised to create 100 million jobs in its manifesto for the 2014 election after failing to accomplish the same target it set in 2009, the Gujarat chief minister said.
“People must decide whether there should be a debate on unemployment, price rise, development and security of women or not,” Modi said.
“There is a need for change in the country. Youth wants employment. Congress party has again promised 10 crore jobs this time. Do you have faith in the promises made by Congress party?” he asked at a public meeting in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, on the outskirts of New Delhi.
Modi’s campaign in the NCR, which is centred on the national capital, came four days before the first phase of voting takes place in the general election in which the BJP, under his leadership, is seen as the frontrunner after back-to-back defeats in 2004 and 2009.
In his speeches, Modi repeated accusations often voiced by BJP leaders that the Congress had made no effort to bring back unaccounted money stashed in foreign banks by Indians. He promised action against those who have illegally kept funds overseas if the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is voted to power. Those involved in corruption cases will be made answerable to the people, he said, citing the case of irregularities in coal block allocations. “The BJP will pass a law in Parliament and sign treaties with countries to bring back black money. Should the government not bring back black money stashed in foreign banks?” Modi asked at a rally in Kurukshetra, Haryana.
The Gujarat chief minister, who also held a rally Gurgaon, Haryana, on the outskirts of Delhi, urged people not to “experiment” in the Lok Sabha election and vote for a strong government that will have a clear majority in Parliament.
“People have lost precious time because of the Congress government. We don't want more experiments. It is the need of the hour that the new government is strong and has 300 seats,” Modi said.
It was a reference to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which formed a short-lived state government in Delhi after elections in December, ending the Congress party’s three-term reign, and is campaigning aggressively in Haryana.
The BJP failed to win a single Lok Sabha seat from Haryana in 2009, when the Congress won in nine out of 10 seats. The member of Parliament from Gurgaon, Rao Inderjit Singh, who won in 2009 on a Congress ticket, recently joined the BJP.
Campaigning aggressively, Modi has been stressing the need for the electorate to vote for a stable government with a comfortable majority in the 543-seat Parliament.
“Modi is expected to hold 185 public meetings and he is rightly being aggressive. Modi is asking for 300 seats for BJP-led alliance because he doesn’t want the attention of voters to get distracted by other political parties like AAP,” said Badri Narayan, an Allahabad-based political
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