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Live reporting: Modi addresses Chennai rally

Chennai: Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's PM candidate Narendra Modi today addressed a rally in Chennai. Earlier, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today replied to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's charge that people who spent

India TV News Desk Published : Feb 08, 2014 9:12 IST, Updated : Feb 08, 2014 21:47 IST
3:02 pm: I have a special affinity for tea (referring to him being a tea seller). I used to boil the tea leaves of Assam and sell them giving people energy. But the very state of Assam which produces tea, is now lacking energy. The people of Assam are peaceloving, they celebrate the Bihu in abandon. why made Assam bloodied? Who is responsible for this? we lost so many young men to violence, these young men of this soil. Should we allow them to die ?

3 pm: I feel pain when I come to Assam. This states rich with natural resources, with forests, trees, natural resources, yet the people of this state are poor. Why? Who is responsible for this?  The crowd shouts 'Congress".  If you know this, then why are you bearing them, asks Modi.  Don't waste time. Its only 100 days left and their farewell is definite. The people of India have decide to see them off. Now the Congress party cannot  save itself (bach nahin sakti).  Even after 60 years, the poverty is still there which is painful.

2:58 pm:
These Congress people question me, Modiji you belong to RSS and BJP, and you are going to erect Statue of Unity for Sardar Patel. I told them, for you, Sardar Patel may be the leader of your party, for us, Sardar Patel is the leader of the country. For you, Sardar Patel may be a politician, for us, Sardar Patel is rashtraneta, statesman, our national heritage. Congress leaders will never understand my sentiment. Sardar Patel, who unified this great country, that great man's work will never be acknowledged by the Congress leaders. Today, when the people of Gujarat have taken up the work of erecting the statue, Congress leaders are now, being forced to take Patel's name, even though unwillingly. That is our success. The leader whom the Congress forgot for 60 years, are now being forced to remember him : Modi

2:57 pm: Congress leaders' dreams are petty, thought are petty, vision is shortsighted, and because of this they forgot Gopinath Bordoloi

2:56 pm: Govt  in Delhi is busy worshipping a single family. Otherwise Gopinath Bordoloi should have got the Bharat Ratna many years ago. It was only Atal Bihar Vajpayee's government which gave the Bharat Ratna to Bordoloi

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