Modi blames Congress for northeast woes

Squarely blaming the Congress-led UPA Government for the various problems in the Northeast, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that the region had remained backward, though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh represented Assam.

Speaking at a function organised by an NGO,  ‘My Home India’ founded by the RSS, Modi trained his guns on the UPA Government and Prime Minister. 

“The Prime Minister sings under the US influence and deliberately did not pursue the development of uranium available in abundance in the Northeast areas. The PM is working to make the dollar strong. If the uranium in the Northeast was developed, we could have emerged as a nuclear power,” Modi said.

He reminded that the Prime Minister had presented vision documents to develop the Northeast areas in 2008. “It is 2012 and he is still reading the vision document,” he added.

Modi noted that the Northeastern region was lacking in infrastructure compared to other states.

“I do not understand why the government is still neglecting these regions,” he added. Modi questioned the secular credentials of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who during an election campaign in Northeast had promised to run the government as per the Bible.

Meets Kavita Karkare

Four years after being publicly snubbed by the widow of slain ATS Chief Hemant Karkare in the 26/11 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Gujarat Modi came face to face with Kavita Karkare.

However, this time, Kavita who had previously rejected an offer for compensation from Modi,  accepted an memento from him in the function.