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Narendra Modi is the only OBC leader with national identity: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

New Delhi, Jun 14: The BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is of the opinion that the Congress party is deliberately playing politics over ‘dead bodies' in Chhattisgarh. Naqvi rues the fact that instead of joining




Q: What are the expansion plans for NDA? You are already left with just a few constituents  in NDA.


Naqvi: NDA will have 8-9 pre-poll allies before 2014 general elections. And nothing can be said at this moment about  post-poll allies.

Q: Congress is aggressively going ahead with ‘Bharat Nirman' ads and people are comparing them with your ‘India Shining' campaign. How would you react to them?

Naqvi: This is ‘Bhrashtachar Nirman' and not ‘Bharat Nirman'. Was 2Gscam , commonwealth scam , coal scam, helicopter scam and many other scams a part of Bharat Nirman? Was defreezing Quattrochi's accounts Bharat Nirman?
 
As far as our ‘India shining' campaign was concerned, it was based on achievements. We had created revolution in the field of communication. We created highways, improvised railways connectivity. We had a robust economy then. At that time the inflation was just 3 percent but today it has  touched  12 percent.  Today a baby is born with a debt of Rs 18000.