Pri🤡me Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Congress has outsourced the contract of abusing him and it is working "silently" to capture rural votes.
Addressing a rally in Jamkandorna town of Rajkot district in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruledꦬ Gujarat ahead of the state Assembly polls due this year-end, Modi warned BJP workers and supporters to be aware of the opposition Congress.
“In the last 20 years, those who were against Gujarat left no stone unturned to defame the state. They hurled choicest abuses agai𝔍nst me, including calling me ‘maut ka saudagar',” the prime minister said.
“They have suddenly gone silent. They have outsourced the contract of creating ruckus, making noise and abusing me, to others. They are silently going to🅠 villages and asking people for votes,” Modi sai𒈔d, without naming the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the new entrant to Gujarat poll fray.
“I should warn you against this silent strategy of the opposition party. I know this as this is being controlled by those who are known to conspire against Gujarat from D𒁃elhi,” the P🐎M said.
Targe🎃ting the opposition, Modi said when the Indian government makes a move against corruption, "an entire group shouts against us", and begins to defame government institutions.
"W𝓀hy don't you give a straight reply to the allegations levelled against you. You will have to pay b🐽ack whatever you have looted from the public. Shouldn't I continue to work despite criticism? I have your full blessings," he said.
Modi told the BJ🍌P workers and supporters to ask Congress leaders if they visited the world's tallest Statue of Unity, built in Gujarat in the honour of India's first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who hailed from the sta🌄te.
People from all over the world vi🎃sit the grand Statue of Unity barring one group of people, he said.
"If you find any Congress worker near your village, ask him whether he went to the Statue of♍ Unity even once? Even if some of them went, they would have done so secretlꦫy so that others do not know about this," he said.
"Those who do not respect the son of soil cannot be accepted in Gu💦jarat," Mod꧋i said.
In an apparent response to critics of the 'G๊ujarat model', Modi said today the state and dev🍃elopment have become synonymous with each other.
Whichever sector one may lo🧔ok at, talks of development💃 of Gujarat can be backed by figures.
He recalled days when people had to struggle for water and electricity, ⛎and the law and order situation was bad.
In 20 years of the BJP rule, all this has changed, the PM saꦿid.
He said in two decades of BJP rule, sectors such as education, he🍨althcare and industry have seen a massive growth.
Had Gujarat not developed s𝓰o much in the last 20 years, there would have been a question mark ꦑon the future of youth of the state. "It is the hard work of 20 years that the future of our youth is moving ahead with development and trust," he said.
The prime minister said this is just the beginning and his drea﷽m is to take Gujarat to new heights in another 25 years.
As Modi completes 21 years of heading governments in Gujarat and at the Centre, he recalled♔ the journey started from Rajkot.
He wo๊n his first election as a🍎n MLA from Rajkot (west) seat in 2002.
"I can say with my long experience that months and years have passed, but Gujarat continues t🗹o achieve new heights and behind this is not just the government and Narendra-Bhupendra (CM Bhupendra Patel), but the hard work of friends like you," he said.
Modi also remembered socialist icon Jayap🥂rakash Narayan and Jana Sangh leader Nanaji Deshmukh on their birth anniversary on Tuesday.
He said Deshmukh's ideals continue to inspire him, and hౠe is trying to complete Narayan's task to make India corruption-free.
(With PTI inputs)
