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Beed: Launching Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign for October 15 Assembly polls in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged people to ensure his party’s victory.
Addressing a campaign rally in Maharashtra’s Beed district for the Assembly Elections, Modi recalled Gopinath Munde, saying if the BJP leader was alive, he wouldn’t have been required to come to the state.
“I had full faith in him. He looked after the poor, those from backward communities and farmers. Maybe God wanted him more than I did,” added Modi.
Hitting out at the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance, Modi asked people if Maharashtra made any progress in the last 15 years? “Did farmers benefit? Did the youth benefit? Did Dalits benefit? Did tribals benefit? Did cities, villages benefit? Did women benefit,” asked Modi.
Taking on the alliance, which broke last month, Modi quipped: “Amitabh Bachchan hosts `Kaun Banega Crorepati`. The Maharashtra government used to play `Kaun Banega Arabpati` everyday.”
Urging people to cast their ballot in favour of the BJP, which has broken its alliance with Shiv Sena, Modi asked if they needed those representatives who grab their lands.
He further vowed to free the nation of such people.
Saying that Gopinath Munde was his “younger brother”, the PM urged people to elect a BJP government so that Maharashtra be “saved”.
“These people who have ruled for 60 years and have done nothing are asking me what I have done in 60 days. In 60 months, I will rid the nation of problems, I promise.”
“China will make an industrial park in Maharashtra. Youth will get jobs. Japan will help with the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail. Maharashtra will progress,” claimed Modi.
The PM is scheduled to address around 15 election rallies across Maharashtra for the upcoming Assembly polls.
According to a Bharatiya Janata Party official, more rallies can be planned if required.
Modi will later today address a rally in Aurangabad in the Marathwada region followed by Mumbai, the country’s commercial capital.
The BJP election rally in Mumbai will take place at 7 pm at the Mahalaxmi Race Course.
Top state and central BJP leaders are expected to be present at the much-awaited rally which the party hopes could turn the tables on the other four major contending parties – the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena – for the elections.
This is the same venue where Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray launched his party’s poll campaign earlier this week and blasted the state BJP for snapping the two parties’ 25-year-old alliance.
The BJP hopes to independently come to power for the first time since it ruled the state in coalition with the Shiv Sena between 1995-1999.
