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Live reporting: Modi lambasts UPA govt for farmer suicides, beheading of jawans

Wardha(Maharashtra): BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today lambasted the Congress-led UPA government for the spate in suicides by farmers in Maharashtra and the beheading of army jawans by Pakistani soldiers on the border.  Addressing

India TV News Desk Updated on: March 21, 2014 6:12 IST
4:27 pm: Modi: Are the jawans and kisans secure and safe in Congress rule?  (The crowd shouts No) Modi shows with his fingers, such a small nation like Pakistan, beheads our jawans. If jawans are not safe, how can we shout the slogan Jai Jawan today.

4:24 pm
: Modi: Lal Bahadur Shastri had roused this nation. Shastriji gave the slogan Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan. The farmers of India filled up our granaries. There was a time India used to import foodgrains from outside to fill up the bellies of its countrymen, but Shastriji roused the nation.

Today, I speak with grief and pain that because of Congress misrule, the nation's agrarian economy was ruined. The Indian farmer grows foodgrains and guards the nation.

4:20 pm
: Modi begins speech. Welcomes leaders from Mahayuti (grand alliance) present on dais. Crowd roars in approval as he welcomes them in Marathi.

12:30 pm: Rally organizers say Modi will arrive by special plane at Yavatmal at 2 pm, visit Sevagram at 2:30 pm, and go to Wardha by helicopter at 3:20 pm. He will leave for Arni at 4:50 pm, meet local farmers at 5:30pm and begin his Chai Pe Charcha at 6 pm. Modi will stay overnight at Yavatmal.

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