Monday 5 May 2014

Modi invokes Lord Ram to woo voters

 With the portrait of Lord Ram providing the backdrop, Narendra Modi on Monday asked people “living” in the birthplace of the Hindu God to teach Congress and those who support it a lesson for not fulfilling electoral promises.

Mr. Modi skirted any reference to his party’s pet theme of building Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, which is part of the district and epicentre of Ram Mandir movement, but made several references to Lord Ram to exhort people to defeat Congress, SP and BSP and support BJP.

“This is the land of Lord Ram where people believed in pran jaye par vachan na jaye (one may lose life but cannot break promise). Can you pardon those who broke their promises?” the BJP prime ministerial candidate said at a rally, referring to the ruling party’s unfulfilled promise of providing 10 crore jobs to people.

He also took on SP, which is in power in UP, and Mayawati-led BSP, saying they are enemies in Lucknow but friends in Delhi...


From thehindu News

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