Modi's full speach at the launching of Advani's Rath Yatra

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>[bJP News] Modi's full speach at the launching of Advani's Rath

>Yatra

>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:39:30 -0700

>

>Participating in senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Kishenchand

>Advani's

>rath yatra, Modi showed that he was every bit as aggressive, brash and

>populist

>as he was in 2002, as he slammed rivals as hard as only he could.

>

>Here is, verbatim, the speech he made in Vadodara April 7:

>

>Under the leadership of Advaniji, this Bharat Suraksha yatra, after

>traveling

>for 35 days, will reach New Delhi.

>

>Friends, these days in politics, those who have not even seen 50 cities of

>India

>have made careers as politicians just by making their presence felt in the

>media. In this country, such people don't find any difficulties in running

>their career. There are at least two-dozen such people in New Delhi. But

>Advaniji, at the age of 78, in temperatures as high as 40 to 45 degrees,

>will

>travel for 35 days. Friends, this penance is not for politics [rajkaran]

>but

>its for the nation [rashtrakaran].

>

>(Crowd applauds).

>

>I can understand politicians coming to you when elections are on. But now,

>there

>is no question of an election [in Gujarat]. We have absolutely finished

>them

>[the Congress]; they are driven out.

>

>(Crowd cheers).

>

>Advaniji is out on the street in this scorching heat because some

>politicians do

>have long distance vision. Advani is able to see into the future. The way

>the

>rulers of New Delhi are ruling the country; the way they are conspiring to

>vertically tear off the society; it will corrode the soul of India.

>

>We want to educate people and warn the emperors of Delhi that the BJP is

>marching ahead with the Suraksha yatra.

>

>Brothers and sisters, what is the conspiracy being planned by the

>government in

>New Delhi?

>

>In Godhra 60 karsevaks were burnt to death. Then, we applied POTA against

>the

>culprits, and the government in New Delhi repealed POTA.

>

>Why brother, why? For whose benefit was POTA repealed? Why are the

>conspirators

>of Godhra being protected? The story did not end there. They created a

>committee

>named Bannerjee Committee. On reading Bannerjee's report it seems like the

>Committee's name is Ben [sister] Raji [happy] committee.

>

>(Crowd breaks into cheers).

>

>This 'Benraji' Committee gave a report just to keep the sister [Congress

>chief

>Sonia Gandhi] happy.

>

>I request the intellectuals of India to think that this day the Supreme

>Court is

>alerted if a witness changes stand or withdraws it. But when governments

>plot to

>protect criminals, then is there any crime bigger than that?

>

>Friends, this kind of scheming is done by the government to create a

>conducive

>atmosphere to save criminals. This is why the ordinary citizen is left

>feeling

>insecure. How a variety of decisions are being taken these days! Recently

>the

>Sachchar committee came to meet me. This Committee has been formed to look

>into

>the living conditions of Muslims in India. Never heard of such

>committees... I

>have heard of commissions which include all kind of people.

>

>For the first time, a commission has been formed exclusively for the

>Muslims.

>

>They came too meet me. They asked me whether the Muslims get a fair deal in

>your

>state, and blah…blah...

>

>I said, look brother, in my state Muslims alone get nothing.

>

>(The crowd is in raptures)

>

>[After a pause] I also told them, I have nothing to offer to Hindus alone.

>Whatever is with me is for the five-crore Gujaratis.

>

>(Laughter)

>

>I don't discriminate nor do I approve of such discrimination, I said.

>

>They were shocked. They asked me something must be there for the Muslims,

>right?

>I asked [the members of Sachchar committee], tell me what figures you want

>from

>me? They asked me, "How much do you spend on Muslims?"

>

>So, I said, okay, let us calculate.

>

>Now, see, the Sabarmati River gets water from the Narmada. How do I

>calculate

>how much water the Muslims drink and how much the Hindus consume? Let me

>tell

>you, I told these things on their faces without mincing words.

>

>Then, I asked them whether they wanted me to calculate how much the Muslim

>prisoners of Sabarmati Jail eat and how much the Hindu prisoners eat?

>

>We have a home department. Do you want me to calculate the money spent on

>Muslim

>gangsters and Hindu gangsters? I clearly told the Sachchar Committee that I

>will

>not allow them to sow the seeds of division in the land of Gujarat. Do

>whatever

>you can, I will not give you any such information, I told them. After they

>left

>my office, one of the members of committee said that this is one chief

>minister

>who never compromises.

>

>Should we not think about the country? About our society? Or should we

>divide

>the country by forming such committees? Look at their audacity! To harm the

>country, they (government in Centre) have asked for statistics of Muslims

>in

>the Indian Army. I salute the chiefs of all the three defence services who

>refused to divulge such information like Gujarat state.

>

>They said that in our world there are no Hindus, there are no Muslims, we

>are

>all residents of Hindustan. We don't have such divisions.

>

>Each and every step of the central government worries us. Recently,

>elections

>were held in Assam. When I went there, our workers insisted that I speak on

>Bangladeshi infiltrators.

>

>I asked them what the reasons behind their woes were. Assam and Bangladesh

>are

>neighbours. I said our (Gujarat's) neighbour is Pakistan. I said Bangladesh

>is

>harassing you because your state government is spineless. Here, our

>neighbour

>Pakistan is having sleepless nights.

>

>(Clapping)

>

>Why should we have sleepless nights? The central government's policy of

>minority appeasement is creating insecurity in the nation.

>

>I will now end my speech and request Advaniji to give the message about the

>security of India to all of us.

>