Aurangabad: Without making any direct mention of the Shiv Sena in his speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his rally in Aurangabad, a strong bastion of Shiv Sena, indicated that the BJP will stay out of any alliance and appealed to the public to come out of the alliance mentality or mindset.
For the first time Narendra Modi expressed his views making it clear that he was also in favour of ending the 25-year-old BJP-Shiv Sena alliance. Modi tried to explain that a single party government with its clear-cut majority will be very decisive compared to the alliance governments. With the absolute majority at the Centre, Modi indirectly suggested that the days of the alliances and fronts have come to an end with the domination of BJP at the Centre. He reiterated his stand that in Maharashtra there should be a one party government and requested the people to elect 'Ek Party Sarkar'.
In Aurangabad, the Prime Minister highlighted that as a tourist capital, the city has inherited the rich heritage of Ajanta and Ellora. Tourism industry can give the employment to all, from Chaiwala (a word used to refer to Modi) to the five star hotel. He said that now the time has come to clean up the city as well as the politics. He appealed to the public at the end of his speech that there should not be any plastic bottles or dirt on the ground when they leave the meeting place.
Modi started his 35 minute long election speech in Marathi and received a thunderous applause from the crowd. He mentioned the names of saints from Maharashtra, from Sant Eknath to Swami Ramanand Tirth. He said that Maharashtra is in fact the elder brother of Gujarat. However, in the past 15 years, the state has lost its number one position in the country but has gone down in its ranking as far as literacy, employment, hygiene, etc. are concerned. Maharashtra has always been number one in industry, social work, literature, and politics. However, because of the 15 years of Congress-NCP rule, the state has lost its glory and fame, Modi lamented.
He highlighted the Pantpradhan Jan Dhan Scheme and said that so far 4 crores accounts have been opened in the country. He appreciated the response of the poor people who have so far deposited Rs 3000 crores in their accounts when they were not expected as it is a zero balance account.
Modi did not even mention Shiv Sena. On the other hand, Shiv Sena leaders are criticising BJP in every meeting including the one at Akola. As usual, Modi tried to engage the mammoth crowd in his usual interactive style and got tremendous response from the audience.
Modi strongly criticised the Congress-NCP alliance and said that Rashtravadi Congress or NCP is actually a 'Bhrashtarvadi' Congress. The alliance had only one agenda and that was corruption, corruption and corruption, Modi said.
Reactions from the crowd indicate that they were expecting the criticism of Shiv Sena in the strong hold of Shiv Sena by Modi.
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