JUNE 10- It is official finally. BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday announced Narendra Modi as the poll panel chief of the party for 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP has bitten the Modi bullet and made the Gujarat strongman its head of campaign committee. There were several rounds of sloganeering by BJP workers after Modi was anointed as the BJP’s poll panel chief.
The Gujarat strongman has overcome strong opposition from BJP patriarch L.K. Advani who sulked and stayed away from the Goa meet.
On Sunday Narendra Modi virtually sounded the election bugle as he targeted the UPA government on various fronts and asked party cadres to work for “Congress-free Bharat nirman”.
He asked the cadres to dream for “Congress-free Bharat nirman” and work in this direction by ousting the UPA government in the next elections.
Describing the UPA as a “sinking ship”, the Gujarat Chief Minister said BJP’s agenda is not the change of the government but development of the nation and giving it its “due prestige”.
He said the people of the country have lost trust in the UPA government and cited safety of women and problems faced by farmers to buttress his point.
On internal security, Modi said the UPA Government was talking about dealing with Maoism with firm hand but some people said to be sympathisers of the Left wing ideology had been appointed to Planning Commission and Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council.
He also took at dig at NAC, saying it had been set up above Planning Commission which is headed by the Prime Minister. “If you had to set up NAC, then why need the Prime Minister?”
Modi also accused the UPA Government of not being serious about the future of youth and warned that if their energy is not properly channelised, there could be unrest.
The Gujarat Chief Minister addressed the workers in the presence of BJP president Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.
INDIA TODAY
