6:00 pm: In UP, Modi says Muslims ignored by both parties
Continuing his development theme in the impoverished UP district which has a sizeable Muslim population, BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate charged Congress and other parties were using the bogey of secularism for their "vote-bank" politics while he was talking about everbody's progress.
"I want to challenge them today. The Prime Minister announced that loans and employment would be provided to Muslim youths. Even 'Shehzade (Rahul Gandhi)' spoke about it at different places," Modi said at a public meeting.
According to a government's reply in Rajya Sabha, he said, "in the last three years, not a single penny was given to anybody. You (Congress) are spoiling the life of Muslim youths in the name of secularism".
As many as 15 out of these 90 districts are from UP.
He said it has become a fashion nowadays that when he speaks about development, employment generation or decreasing the crime rate, his detractors start asking questions on secularism.
"There is a new fashion theses days. If Modi says the country needs development, my detractors say what will happen to secularim? If Modi says youth should get employment, they say what will happen to secularism? Modi says crimes rate should be less. They say what will happen to secularism?" he said.
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Asking the people if they don't need employment and better life, Modi said his rivals do not have any answer to their concerns.
"And that is why they roam around with this chant of secularism, secularism just to win elections," Modi said.
Modi also took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi and said "while the "Shahzaada" in Congress says the party was about a "soch" (thought) but in reality the party was actually in the "soch" of how a tea seller has reached such great heights".
The Gujarat Chief Minister said that in this election, on one side there is a "Shehzada" while on the other a tea vendor ("chai-walla").
"They may be a big name, but I am hard worker," he said.
2:00 pm: In Jammu, Modi calls Varanasi competitor anti-national
BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today for the first time spoke about the AAP and Arvind Kejriwal at a rally and claimed that the party and its leaders were anti-national in their approach.
The attack on AAP came a day after Kejriwal announced that he would contest against Modi from the Varanasi constituency.
Modi claimed that there were 'three AKs' that were widely praised in Pakistan: one of them is the AK-47 assault rifle and the second is defence minister AK Antony for claiming intruders into Kashmir only wore Pakistan Army uniforms despite the fact that they were from the army.
"The third is AK-49. This man has just given birth to a party. On the party's official website, the map has given off Kashmir to Pakistan," he said.
This man has an associate who says a referendum should be held in Kashmir and Pakistan is dancing about it, he said, and accused the party of working in the interests of Pakistan.
They are Pakistani and anti-national agents, he said.
"We don't need to identify them but we need to acknowledge them," he said.
In his second major rally in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, Modi blamed the Congress-led UPA government of failing to take care of either army personnel or farmers in the country.
"What is the present Congress-led UPA government doing? Our jawans heads are getting chopped off," Modi said, adding that the party had even failed to take care of the nation's farmers.
He said the slogan of 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisaan' had been modified to 'Mar Jawan, Mar Kisaan' by the present UPA government which didn't care about either of them.
He claimed the Congress was refusing to take him on the agenda of development and it constantly hid behind the excuse of secularism.
"I talk of price rise, they say tak about secularism," he said, adding that no matter what issue he tried to talk about, the opposition only insisted on speaking about secularism.
"The government that has no answers for the questions of the people has no right to hide behind the fake cloak of secularism," he said.
He also criticised dynastic politics and blamed it for the current condition of the country.
"We have to make Kashmir and India free of this dynastic politics," he said.
He spoke of migration from Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Kashmiri Pandits being forced out from the valley and said that the government had no right to stay in power if it failed to prevent it.
"In our country Bangladeshis are able to settle and even vote but these refugees from Pakistan are not able to even be acknowledged as citizens after they move here," Modi said.
He said that it was a pressing need to ensure they were provided citizenship. The BJP's prime ministerial candidate also criticised Rahul Gandhi without naming him and said that his claim that 'Congress was an idea' was a flawed one.
"We will ensure that Kashmir gets it rights and progresses," he said.
He blamed the Congress for failing to give backward classes their rights and said he would ensure it was corrected.
"Have faith in me if you don't want to live in the same conditions that your parents have lived in," he said.
"You have survived and tolerated Congress or Congress-linked governments for 60 years but just give me a chance for 60 months, he said.
"The country needs a chowkidaar. Give me the job for just 60 months," he said.
Modi claimed that he had only philosophy and that was of progress.
"Every problem's solution is in one herb and that herb is development," he said.
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