Narendra Modi: Throw out Congress if you love your children

Kanpur: Narendra Modi once again attacked Congress party in his inimitable style at a massive rally in Kanpur today.Modi urged the people of Kanpur and UP to throw out Congress in upcoming general elections if they loved their children."Do you want your children to face the same difficulties that you have faced? Do you want your children to live the same life? Do you want to change you children's future," Modi asked his audience."If you love your children, pledge that you will destroy those who destroyed you... Don't let them destroy your children," the Gujarat chief minister said, referring to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) central government.Modi blasted PM Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Yuvraj (Congress VP Rahul Gandhi) for being indifferent to unchecked price rise."Did (Congress president) Sonia (Gandhi) ever say she is upset because the government could not control price rise? Why is this happening? It is because Congress is arrogant and they don't care about the people," Modi said.Accusing the “troika” of Congress and its allies SP and BSP of playing “divisive” politics in the name of secularism, Modi asked the people of Uttar Pradesh to throw them out of power and “bury” vote bank politics forever.Interestingly, the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate made no reference to the Ram temple issue in his first public meeting in UP where the party is hoping at win over half of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in its bid to come to power at the Centre in the 2014 general elections.“Government has only one religion. It is nation first, India first. It has only one religious scripture, that is the Constitution,” Modi said, as a mammoth crowd of BJP supporters chanted ‘Modi, Modi' repeatedly.Raking up the issue of Congress attacking him on the issue of secularism, the Gujarat Chief Minister said the ruling party has only “one mantra, one chant and one medicine” for winning elections.“Congress has only one mantra, only one medicine- that of vote bank for winning elections. They chant the mantra of secularism to divide the people,” he said, adding that BJP is committed to binding people together.Modi said the aim of his party is that whether it is a Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh or Buddhist they should all be “good”.“We will have to bury vote bank politics forever. We have to tread on the path of development oriented politics,” he said.Attacking the ruling SP and the main opposition BSP in the state, who provide outside support to Congress-led government at the Centre, Modi described them as a “troika” which has “eclipsed” the holy confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati.“Uttar Pradesh wants to break free from this eclipse to restore its pristine glory,” he said.Similarly, the people of Uttar Pradesh should take the lead in dislodging the troika from Delhi, he said, citing the call from this historic city for driving out the British.