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Modi dares Centre to compete with Gujarat
Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday dared the Prime Minister to compete with Gujarat’s growth rate in the past few years. Concluding his day-long ‘Sadbhavna’ fast at Bhavnagar on Saturday evening, Modi said that Gujarat has registered a ten per cent growth in agriculture, against a national average of hardly 2.5 per cent.
Having a dig at the Centre, Modi said he felt pity at its futile efforts to destabilise Gujarat. Addressing a huge crowd which gathered at the venue of his day-long fast, the Chief Minister said that his ‘Sadbhabvna Mission’ has laid the foundation stone of an entirely new political culture in the country that would prove the political pundits wrong if they attempted to evaluate the State’s achievements with a ‘jaundiced’ eye.
Nearly 50,000 people from all walks of life came to greet Modi, of which 10,000 joined the fast on their own. Modi said that Gujarat’s growth record has provided a new food for thought to political analysts and has provided a new ray of hope amid an atmosphere of gloom and pessimism prevailing in India.
The ‘Sadbhavna Mission’ has also helped people look at things beyond vote bank politics that was spreading the poison of communalism and casteism, Modi told the gathering at Bhavnagar. It was Modi’s eleventh one-day fast at the district level after the launch of the state-wide ‘Sadbhavna Mission’ at Ahmedabad with a three-day fast from September 17.
Modi had earlier held such one-day-fasts at several places like Dwarka, Navsari, Patan, Bodeli, Bachau, Songadh and Rajpipla. The high point of the one-day fast at Bhavnagar was a former BJP legislator from the city rejoining the party after being in wilderness for the last three years.
Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday dared the Prime Minister to compete with Gujarat’s growth rate in the past few years. Concluding his day-long ‘Sadbhavna’ fast at Bhavnagar on Saturday evening, Modi said that Gujarat has registered a ten per cent growth in agriculture, against a national average of hardly 2.5 per cent.
Having a dig at the Centre, Modi said he felt pity at its futile efforts to destabilise Gujarat. Addressing a huge crowd which gathered at the venue of his day-long fast, the Chief Minister said that his ‘Sadbhabvna Mission’ has laid the foundation stone of an entirely new political culture in the country that would prove the political pundits wrong if they attempted to evaluate the State’s achievements with a ‘jaundiced’ eye.
Nearly 50,000 people from all walks of life came to greet Modi, of which 10,000 joined the fast on their own. Modi said that Gujarat’s growth record has provided a new food for thought to political analysts and has provided a new ray of hope amid an atmosphere of gloom and pessimism prevailing in India.
The ‘Sadbhavna Mission’ has also helped people look at things beyond vote bank politics that was spreading the poison of communalism and casteism, Modi told the gathering at Bhavnagar. It was Modi’s eleventh one-day fast at the district level after the launch of the state-wide ‘Sadbhavna Mission’ at Ahmedabad with a three-day fast from September 17.
Modi had earlier held such one-day-fasts at several places like Dwarka, Navsari, Patan, Bodeli, Bachau, Songadh and Rajpipla. The high point of the one-day fast at Bhavnagar was a former BJP legislator from the city rejoining the party after being in wilderness for the last three years.
