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Accusing Congress of failing the country’s farmers and soldiers, Narendra Modi today said the ruling party should be given such a “farewell” that India does not see it in power “for seven generations“.
“During former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s time Indian was proud of its “jai jawan, jai kisan” slogan....now its (UPA government’s) new slogan is ‘mar jawan, mar kisan’ (die soldiers, die farmers),” the BJP PM candidate said in first public election rally in Jat dominated belt of Nagaur district here.
He recalled the Emergency period saying, Congress has been making people suffer in this country and its defeat is certain in this election.
The Gujarat Chief Minister asked the people to name one person who can save the Congress. “A person who cannot save the party, how will he save the nation,” he said in a veiled attack on Rahul Gandhi.
“The central government’s defeat is certain. It is time to decide how to give them a farewell. We should give Congress such a farewell that India does not see such a government in seven generations,” he said.
When Indian soldiers’ heads are chopped off by Pakistani jawans, terrorists stab them and farmers commit suicide in the country, “our heads bow in shame.
“This is an unprecedented situation when Indian soldiers are the most unsafe as IAF planes are getting crashed, jawans are dying in submarine incidents, terrorists intruding from across the border are stabbing soldiers,” he said.
“At the same time, the number of farmers committing suicide is in lakhs, more than the soldiers being killed in the country. In such a worst situation which we have never seen before, can the government sitting in Delhi dare to say ’jai jawan, jai kisan’ Now its new slogan is ‘mar jawan, mar kisan’ (die soldires, die farmers),” he said.
A country, where a farmer cannot live with a respect, has no future, Modi said.
“If you want the nation to be saved, then farmers are to be saved, soldiers are to be saved, villages are not only to be saved, but they should be taken forward,” he said and claimed Congress does not have any strength or capability to save the nation.
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