Bhubaneswar: BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi pitched for the Lok Sabha elections asking people in Odisha to elect BJP candidates in all the 21 seats in the state while addressing a rally in Bhubaneswar. He asked the public to give him a chance to be the Prime Minister. "What the Congress could not do in 60 years, I promise you I will do it in just 60 months," he said.
Claiming that the 'BJP model of development' would do wonders for India, he said that only the BJP was concerned about the welfare of people. Modi also highlighted unemployment amongst the youth in the state and also claimed that the Oriya population working in Gujarat's Surat were from Ganjam district which is state Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's native place.
He stressed on the migration of labourers and others from working class to other states including Gujarat. He questioned as of why workers who make silk sarees were moving to Surat in Gujarat. "Why cannot the karigar work in Odisha itself," he asked.
Modi began his speech in Oriya but claimed that he was not targeting Patnaik, who is not very comfortable in his mother tongue. "I am not speaking in Oriya to give Patnaik a complex," said Modi while claiming that the state was on the cusp of a major political change.
He went on to compare his tenure as the Gujarat Chief Minister with his Odisha counterpart. "Odisha CM has completed 14 years in government and even I have completed 14 years in Gujarat. We have brought Gujarat to a place where people go looking for employment, people from Odisha go to Gujarat for jobs," said Modi and added that Patnaik had ruined the state.
Moving on to the national level, Modi said that the forthcoming Lok Sabha election was not just about who comes to power but the motive was to purify the political system.
Patnaik had earlier expressed his opposition to Modi's candidature for the PM post. He took several potshots at the ongoing attempts to form a non-BJP, non-Congress secular front. He accused them of supporting the Congress party.
"It is time to give a befitting reply to the third front who have been spoiling the states, there are 11 such parties , 9 of them are supporting Congress and in elections they separate their ways and then join hands with Congress post elections. The only aim of Third Front is 'Congress Bachao'," he said.
He targeted the Gandhi family saying, "The Congress has been ruled by mostly one family. Are they concerned about price rise? Delhi government is only interested in getting the power, not concerned about the country and the people," he said.
Narendra Modi praised BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan claiming that he has achieved 15 per cent growth in agriculture in the state.
Saying that the people in Odisha were waiting for a change, Modi asked them to vote for BJP in the Lok Sabha as well as Assembly elections.
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