India needs a dream team, not a dirty team in 2014: Modi

Delhi - BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Sunday tore into the Congress-led UPA alliance for rampant corruption and rank misgoverance and asked the people of the country to vote for a ‘dream team’ not a ‘dirty team’ in the upcoming general election.

 — his first in the capital as BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate — Modi said, “This Government is mired in corruption. Instead of finding solutions to problems, it has stopped functioning. This Government is paralysed.”

“The UPA is immersed in Gandhi-bhakti. This Gandhi-bhakti refers to currency notes. This government is so corrupt that you can’t count the money, if you keep writing the zeros, you’ll reach 10 Janpath,” Modi said.

“Governments are the strength of the people. But Delhi is burdened by Governments. Here there are Governments within Governments. One of the mother, one of the son, then there is also a coalition Government. Moreover, all the political allies of UPA are running individual Governments. The nation’s growth and development have been severely affected,” Modi roared as the cheering crowds were repeated shouting slogan ‘Modi lao desh bachao’.

“Coalition Governments are formed on arithmetic but run on chemistry. Till the chemistry matches, such Government cannot do any public good. The only chemistry that brings this coalition together is the chemistry of corruption….. because of which the country is not moving forward,” he said.

Modi blasted Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for insulting the authority of the Prime Minister when he was abroad and asked people to decide in the next general election if the nation will be run based on the Constitution or whims of the “prince”.

“The pride of the Prime Minister has been brought down by his own party. Congress party vice president has committed the sin of disrespecting the Prime Minister by calling him ‘non sense’,” Modi said.

“Today the issue is whether the country will run on the whims of the prince or on the basis of the Constitution,” he said, adding that Congress leaders are reputedly “disrespecting” the Indian Constitution, Parliament, democracy and the Cabinet.

In his over an hour-long address, the BJP leader lamented that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was projecting 1.25 billion-strong India as a “poor nation” before the US President Barack Obama during his meeting with him on Saturday.

“My head hung in shame when the Prime Minister pleaded before Obama that he represents a poor country. That his country’s people are poor. Why did he not project India as a nation where 65 per cent of the people are below 35 years of age?” Modi said, adding that the PM has behaved like some film-makers who project India as a poor nation to make money.

Taking further jibes, Modi wondered if the Prime Minister was prompted to take this line as the “prince” (Rahul Gandhi) had said recently that “poverty is a state of mind”.

Modi also hit out at the Prime Minister on foreign policy issues and said the nation has doubts that he will be able to speak out strongly about India’s interests and cross-border terrorism during his meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in New York.

In his over an hour-long address, Modi lashed out at Pakistani Prime Minister for calling our Prime Minister a ‘dehati aurat’.

“We can fight with our Prime Minister here on policy issues but we will not tolerate this. What status do Sharif has to address my country’s Prime Minister as a dehati aurat (village woman)? There cannot be a bigger insult of India and its Prime Minister. This nation of 1.25 billion will not tolerate its Prime Minister’s insult,” he said.

Modi exhorted people to throw out the dirty and corrupt UPA and bring the ‘dream team’ of BJP to power in the coming general election.

The rally ‘Badlenge Dilli, Badlenge Bharat’ (Change Delhi, Change India) is believed to have made a decisive impact on BJP’s poll prospect in the upcoming Assembly election in the Delhi.