Bangalore, Apr 29: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Sunday repeatedly attacked Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, seeking to challenge his argument that "no individual can do anything" and accused him of going back on commitments made by his party in its recent Jaipur conclave.
Addressing a public rally here to campaign for BJP candidates for the May 5 Assembly elections in Karnataka, Modi, referring to Rahul as "born with golden spoon leader" said "an individual can do so many things".
Then he went on to narrate the role of Patel in unification of India and Shastri's slogan of "Jai Jawan; Jai Kisan" that led to "revolution" on the foodgrains production front with the country being self-sufficient in this regard even today.
He said the party's Jaipur conclave had committed not to give party tickets to those who lost by a huge margin, kin of Congress leaders and criminals. "Congress has thrown water to those commitments", Modi said, adding, "In Karnataka elections, have they not given tickets to those who lost by more than 15,000 votes to kin of leaders and to criminals?"
Modi said in India, the culture is children obey whatever their mother says and then referred to Congress President Sonia Gandhi's statement that "power is poison". "Mother says 'power is poison' and son (Rahul) comes calling in Karnataka seeking power to the party".
Seeking to mock at Rahul without mentioning his name, Modi said the Congress Vice President would not be able to spell the name of Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar.
He alleged that Rahul tried to denigrate the image of Karnataka during election campaign and demanded that he apologise to the people of the state. "See the courage they have to talk on corruption", he said, referring to the 2G scam.
Modi said the country has never seen "such a weak" central government, criticising UPA's handling of the Sarabjit Singh episode and Chinese incursions.
Despite all the power centres in the national capital, Modi said Delhi is not safe. "You can't protect Delhi. How can you protect Karnataka?"
Obviously referring to internal fights in Karnataka BJP during its tenure, Modi sought to draw a parallel with Gujarat and said his state had undergone similar difficulties between 1995 and 2000 as the party was learning the ropes and then didn't have any administrative experience.
But BJP came back to power in Gujarat 2000, he said, expressing confidence the party would return to power in Karnataka as well.
