Kasargod/Bagalkot: BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Tuesday lashed out at the state government and said Kerala had become a nursery of terrorism because of the misrule of the Congress-led UDF government. Mr Modi was here to campaign for BJP’s Kasargod candidate K. Surendran at the Bharat Vijay Rally.
During his third visit to Kerala in recent times, Mr Modi hit out at the UDF and the LDF saying both fronts are playing a stage-managed ‘WWE-like fight’.
Criticising the state government for not taking any action to improve the life of Keralites, he said, “Congress is like a watermelon, outside green and inside red,” and called the UDF-LDF fight as a friendly match.
In another rally at Bagalkot in Karnataka Mr Modi derided as ineffectual the Right to Information Act (RTI) amd MGNREGS, that the UPA counts among its achievements.
He noted that while it was possible to get information through the RTI Act, corrupt officials or politicians could not be punished under it.
“What is the use of getting information through the RTI Act when we cannot punish the corrupt” he demanded.
Calling the MGNREGS a mere eyewash, he accused the Congress of failing to keep its promise of providing at least one job to every household.
“It has generated merely 1.25 crore jobs during its tenure, while the NDA government had created more than six crore jobs in five years. The Congress has looted crores of rupees through MGNREGS and failed to redress the country’s unemployment problem,” he charged.
