Modi slams Jairam, PM and Chidambaram

B D Narayankar from Chikmagalur
      
Chikmagalur, Apr 13 (PTI) Narendra Modi today slammed
Union Minister Jairam Ramesh, who loses no opportunity to put
the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate in the line of his fire,
and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for calling India poor
during their foreign visits.
     At a rally here, Modi took on Ramesh in his home district
of Chikmagalur, for calling India the "dirtiest and laziest"
country in the world during his foreign visits.
     "Nowadays, there is a minister in Congress who has
studied in a foreign country and was born here in Chikmagalur.
He says India is the dirtiest and laziest country in the
world. What type of a son is he of Mother India. He goes to a
foreign land, eats food in his aunty's house and starts
abusing his mother (India)," he said.
     Modi also criticised Singh for calling India a poor
nation during his meeting with the US President Barack Obama.
"One said India is dirty and what did Prime Minister say when
he went to America? He told Obama that his country is poor. Is
there any need for telling this to Obama? Will Obama remove
poverty?" he said.
     He also flayed Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram for
calling India poor for the last 5,000 years.
        "These (Ramesh, Singh and Chidambaram) people are darlings
of Madam Sonia and special people of Shehzade (Rahul Gandhi),"
he said.
     "India was never a poor country because this was the
country known as the 'Golden Bird', where ghee and milk also
used to flow. For this very reason, this country was invaded
on several occasions," Modi said.
      Modi said he had suggested to Ramesh to start packaging
institutions in Chikmagalur, coffee growing district, to
promote sale of coffee globally, but he did not put it in
place. Congress party is not rooted to the ground."
      Referring to Indira Gandhi, who won a by-election from
Chikmagalur that resurrected her politically in 1978, Modi
said he would do ten times more work than the late Prime
Minister, who was saved by the people of Chikmagalur in her
crisis. "You saved Indira Gandhi from crisis. After that she
did something for you (Chikmagalur), but I will do ten times
more than her."