UPA govt "remote-controlled": Modi

Chikkaballapur (KTK), Apr 13 (PTI) Narendra Modi today
dubbed the UPA government as "remote controlled" and "lame" as
he raised the pitch for a strong and stable government at the
Centre.
    Addressing a rally here, Modi painted a gloomy picture for
the Congress-led UPA, claiming it would not be able to open
its account in seats in several states and in many others, it
would end up with a single digit.
    "I ask you all people what type of government do you want
in India? Do you want a government in Delhi, a lame
government? Do you want a dumb government? Do you want
remote-controlled government. Do you want a government which
is lying dead in a hospital?," Modi posed to the gathering.
    In a trenchant attack on the UPA, he also asked, "Do you
want a government which divides the country. Do you want a
government which breaks promises. Do you want a government
which destroys the future of the country's youth?."
    Union Minister M Veerappa Moily is pitted against former
Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy, son of former Prime Minister
H D Deve Gowda, from Chikkaballapur, where former Minister
Bacche Gowda is the BJP candidate.
    "It is the need of the hour that we need a strong
government in Delhi. If we have a strong government at the
Centre we will have a strong determination. If there is strong
government, then we will take strong steps. If we take strong
steps, then the country also will become strong," Modi said.
    Modi also said "there are many states where the Congress
will not open its account. There will be no state where the
Congress party will even reach double digit. This time
Congress ruled states will end up in single digit."
    The BJP's prime ministerial candidate's "remote control"
jibe comes days after a book written by Sanjaya Baru, former
media adviser to PM, stating that Sonia Gandhi was the
remote control in UPA Government and Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh played a second fiddle to her.
        Taking on Moily who holds the petroleum portfolio, Modi
said, "You made the people count cylinders - whether (to
increase the cap to) nine or eleven."
        "Moilyji your five years elapsed in family worshipping.
You haven't done anything good to your department and your
constituency, except doing good to (a family living at) 10
Janpath," he said, an apparent reference to the Gandhi family.
        "Whatever problems you are facing, the same is being
faced by the whole of the country. This problem is due to
Indian government's chaotic rule," he told the gathering.
        He also referred to the local problems like the ones
faced by the silk industry, for which Chikkaballapur is known,
and also water scarcity.
        Modi blamed the silk industry related problems on
Union Government's import and export policy.
        "Moilyji you are sitting in Delhi. The industry is being
hit in your constituency. People's lives have been ruined and
youth are getting unemployed. At least you could have done
something."
      He said Atal Bihari Vajpayee had seen a dream of linking
the rivers. "If we don't join the rivers then the nature will
not forgive us,", he said, seeking to strike chord with the
people hit by perennial drinking water problem.