Nov 21, 2022: Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi spearhead election campaigns
Phase 1 of Gujarat’s election is to end in just 8 days from now. Both the BJP and Congress are campaigning hard in the State.
As the campaigning in Gujarat gains momentum, Prime Minister Narendra Modi challenged Congress to “a face-off” on the issue of development rather than discussing his “aukat”. “They talked about showing me my ‘aukat’…called me many names…I have no ‘aukat’,” PM Modi said referring to the Congress leaders’ criticism of him.
Apparently targeting Congress leaders, Narendrabhai Modi said, “You may belong to a royal family. I hail from an ordinary family. You have called me ugly, low caste, death dealer, dirty sewer worm and now you have asked me to show my aukat.”
“I have no aukat. Let’s discuss the issue of further development of Gujarat,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a scathing attack on the Congress during a public address in the Dudhrej area of Gujarat’s Surendranagar.
Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi in his pubic address targeted BJP for the Morbi bridge collapse.
On Monday, 21st November, he said, “No action has been taken against the “real culprits” behind the last month’s collapse of a suspension bridge in Gujarat’s Morbi town, where 135 people were killed, because the perpetrators of the crime share a “good relationship” with the ruling BJP.”
Addressing an election rally in Rajkot, his second in the day, Rahul Gandhi said that only watchmen (posted at the accident site) have been arrested and jailed. “When journalists asked me what I think about the Morbi tragedy… I said this was not a political issue and so I would say nothing on this. But the question arises today as to why no FIR (has been filed against the real culprits?” the Congress MP asked.
Gandhi said he was feeling sad the Bharat Jodo Yatra of the Congress was not passing through Gujarat, where Assembly polls would be held on December 1 and 5. The Congress MP took a break from the 3,570 km cross-country foot-march, which started from Tamil Nadu on September 7 and is currently passing through adjoining Maharashtra, and addressed two election rallies in support of his party candidates in Gujarat.
— By Sachin Ashal