Audience: America had banned your entry in that country. Will you go to US if you become PM?
Modi: When it happened in 2005, I had told media that we want to create an India where Americans will have to stand in cue to seek visa.
RS: American ambassador Nancy Powell had to leave after she met you. What did you do?
Modi: (Laughs)...This is something that journalists should investigate.
RS: You opponents allege that all your developmental claims in the state are hollow. Mulayam Singh yadav recently asked you to explain whether Gujarat, like UP, also has free irrigation, free education andfree medicines.
Modi: He should have taken it further- free goondaism, free killings of innocents.
RS: He responded when you said that it takes 56 inch chest for running the government.
Modi: I had responded to him when he said that he will not allow UP becoming another Gujarat. It is then that I had said, “Neta ji, it takes 56 inches chest to make Gujarat. And then I went on to say, in order to make a state like Gujarat, you need to give electricity for 24 hours and 365 days. Most houses in Gujarat have the facility of drinking water from taps, 99% roads in rural regions have proper roads. I said, “You don't have that kind of stamina. You continue with caste oriented politics because you cannot go beyond that.” Today Ram Manohar Lohia must have been very upset with his disciples.
RS: Rahul Gandhi alleges that you have created Gujarat's image just through marketing as far as facilities like electricity, water and employment are concerned.
Modi: Okay, we can go to Delhi, Bengal and Assam for marketing. But I cannot do that in front of the people of Gujarat, right? They can see through right away. I say that I have constructed roads and if there are no roads, then the people there will never believe me. They would call me a liar if I had not done anything for the agricultural sector. Then I would have not won elections in 2002, 2007and 2012. I did not lose a single election. Gujarat is the only State that can fight the elections with the agenda of development. Even today our agenda is development and others are running away from this zone.
They don't have courage to touch this issue. Because they feel that they will be answerable for this. When I had gone to visit Gujarat in 2001, people gathered to meet me. I hadn't visited my State for quite some time. I had nothing to do there. Before becoming the CM I had not even seen the CM's chamber. I was not even an MLA and I had not even fought teacher's elections.
People would come to me and say, we are not asking for anything big.
But at least provide us electricity during dinner time so that we don't have to eat in the dark. That means, during that period, Gujarat didn't even get electricity in the evening for dinner. Today Gujarat has electricity all around the year. This cannot be proved through marketing. When people switch on their bulb and see light, it is then that they believe that Modi has provided electricity.
