Union Govt failed on all fronts: Gujarat CM

6 March 2009
Aurangabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today alleged the Congress-led UPA Government had failed on all fronts and the 26/11 terror strikes on Mumbai, the country's financial capital, was its evidence.

Addressing a public meeting here this evening, Mr Modi lambasted the UPA Government, saying this government was ruining the future of the young generation and national security for the sake of vote bank, and pointed that time has now come for the rulers to give account of their last 5 years term.

The 26/11 terror attack and all other attacks were the proofs of the failure of this government, he alleged.

Appealing the public to change the government at the Centre, he said merely changing the Union Home Minister was not sufficient for checking terrorism in the country.

He criticised the Union Agriculture Minister for failing to increase the country's agricultural growth during the last five years.

''The agricultural growth rate of the country is just 2.5 per cent, while Gujarat’s stands at 14 per cent,'' he said.

Challenging the Union Government to match the development ratio of the country with his state, the Gujarat Chief Minister alleged that the Central Government had failed to sustain the jobs of lakhs of youth during the recession.

Rubbishing the reports in a section of Pakistani media about the alleged involvement of the Indian intelligence agency in the attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore recently, Mr Modi said it was a plot to malign the country's clean image in the international community.

Maharashtra BJP chief Nitin Gadkari alleged that Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was more interested in cricket and the IPL rather than the welfare of Indian farmers.

''The farmers' suicides in the state is an evidence of how Mr Pawar had failed to work for the growth of the agriculture sector in the country,'' he added.

BJP national general secretary Gopinath Munde, Dnyanoba Munde and Vijay Gavhane were among those present on the occasion.