Author: D K Singh
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: November 22, 2008
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/modi-milks-malegaon-what-pak-couldnt-do-in-20-yrs-hindustan-govt-did-in-20-days/389217/
Putting Terror at the centrestage in the last
lap of the BJP's poll campaign in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra
Modi today accused the Congress-led Government at the Centre of playing "votebank
politics" by maligning the image of the Army and demoralizing the security
forces.
And accused the Centre of having bolstered
Pakistan's allegations about terrorist acts being the handiwork of the Indian
Army.
"What Pakistan could not do in 20 years,
the government of Hindustan has done it in 20 days," he said at a public
rally in Rau constituency in Indore.
He said that when US President Bill Clinton
was in India, 40 people were killed in Chhittisinghpura in J&K. "The
same day, Mian Musharraf gave a statement that it was the Indian Army in terrorist
garb who were behind the Chhittisinghpura massacre. But Pakistan did not succeed
then. Look at the country's misfortune, our own government has now painted
the Army as terrorists," said Modi.
"Delhi calls GUJCOCA draconian. GUJCOCA
is exactly like MCOCA, which is being invoked against sadhus and saints. If
there is MCOCA in Maharashtra, why not GUJCOCA in Gujarat? The day we will
sit on Delhi's gaddi (throne), we will reveal all secrets," said the
Gujarat Chief Minister in his first election meeting in MP.
Modi also praised "development"
in the state under MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan calling him "MP's
Obama."
He took a dig at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh:
"The PM generally does not speak; probably, he is not allowed to speak.
But once the PM said that having watched the mother of a slain terrorist crying
in front of television cameras, he could not sleep the entire night. If a
terrorist's mother cries, the PM cannot sleep, but when children of the poor
cry for want of food because of inflation, he has no problem in sleeping.
It is unfortunate." Modi is scheduled to address about 20 meetings across
Malwa.