Tirupati: Promising to promote Seemandhra, its long coastlinem as the “gateway to prosperity”, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi said the region could make the biggest contribution to the energy sector of the country. He invited the youth to enrol at the petroleum university in Gujarat and return to take charge of development here. He said port management and marine engineering universities would be set up in Seemandhra.
Training his guns on the Congress and the “Maa-bete (mother-son) sarkar,” which he said was responsible for the deaths of millions of farmers across the country, Mr Modi said he would prevent farmer suicides by taking forward Atal Behari Vajpayee’s plan of interlinking river waters. All this progress would only be possible if the people voted in a strong government led by Mr Naidu, he said.
Mr Modi spent some time talking about the FIRs filed on him for showing the BJP’s lotus symbol after voting in Gujarat. “To date in my entire life, not even a single FIR was registered against me, not even for wrong-side scooter driving, and not even for wrong parking. Suddenly tod-ay when I landed here I came to know that an FIR has been registered against me.I will never forget April 30.”
One can understand if someone points (threatens with) a knife, a pistol or a gun (and FIR is registered). But do you know why FIR was registered against me? Because I showed a lotus to the people,” he said.
