Cong kept poverty to remain in power: Narendra Modi

UJJAIN/MANDSAUR: Wrapping up his campaign in Madhya Pradesh on the last day, Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Congress kept generations in poverty and didn’t want education to spread so that it can remain in power.
“The Congress has done nothing for the poor. It knows if masses are educated, it will no longer be in power,” Modi told a rally in the BJP-ruled state where Shiv Singh Chouhan is looking for a third term.
Attacking the Nehru-Gandhi family, the Gujarat chief minister said, “Four generations of a family are saying the same things on poverty, but doing nothing.”
In the same breath, he praised Chouhan for removing the BIMARU tag on MP by launching a series of developmental programmes. “I won't talk of Gujarat. There are two governments, one in Madhya Pradesh and other Rajasthan (Congress-ruled). See the difference in their work and then decide for whom to vote.”
Modi said the Supreme Court had suggested that the wheat rotting due to absence of storage facilities should be distributed among the poor but the Congress allowed it to rot and later sold it to liquor industries at 80 paise per kg.
Highlighting achievements of the BJP government, Modi said the Congress was able to produce only 4500 MW of power in its 50-year rule in MP. On the other hand, power generation in BJP’s ten years had crossed 11000 MW mark. The availability of power would change the pace of growth, he said.
Blaming Congress for rampant corruption, Modi referred to late PM Rajiv Gandhi’s remark that of every rupee released by the Centre, only 15 paise reached the grass roots. “Which hands were responsible for this erosion? The BJP was nowhere in the picture at that time.”
At the rally in Mandsaur, Modi referred to Rahul Gandhi as ‘Mahashay’ (gentleman) instead of the oft-repeated “Shahzade” which had drawn criticism from the Congress.