After senior BJP leader L K Advani, Gujarat Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying "nobody remembered him when he was on holiday for two months", an apparent reference to Singh's recovery from a bypass heart surgery.
Terming Singh a "weak" Prime Minister, Modi said Singh owes many answers to the country on many issues.
"I want to remind you that during the Narasimha Rao government, you were the finance minister and India's biggest share market scam, committed by Harshad Mehta, had occurred," Modi said, adding "now you are Prime Minister and Satyam scam has occurred."
"I want to ask you is it mere coincidence that two biggest scams of the country have occurred when you are at the helm of affairs,?" he said.
Modi said, "Nobody remembered the PM when he was on holiday for two months. Such an invisible PM who is not to be found and seen anywhere!" he exclaimed in an apparent reference to Singh's absence from work while recovering from bypass heart surgery.
Modi attacked the UPA government on the issue of Mumbai terror attack and said "Your neighbouring country attacked you and instead of going to Pakistan and attack it, a minister of your government collected some TV clippings, news paper reports' and prepared a booklet and went to the US for help".
He said Congress had committed to create job for 1.5 crore youths in the country. In a sarcastic way, he
said that Mukherjee is right that many people will lose jobs in the country.
"I agree with him. On May 16, when results of the general elections are announced, you all would lose jobs as
NDA led by Advani will come to power," he said addressing a election rally at Maninagar area.
On the recently released Congress manifesto, he said that the party has devoted 20 page on the vote bank politics,
but not bothered to write 20 lines on internal security and how it would tackle the situation when Bangladesh and Pakistan have become terrorists hubs.
He attacked the Congress for remaining silent on the illegal Bangladeshis staying in the country. Modi also spoke about the diamond industry which is under the grip of global economic crisis. According to him, this industry, which provides huge revenues to the central government, is in crisis but the UPA government has not done anything to help it.
"I and Advaniji requested the Prime Minister to help the industry by asking the Diamond Corporation of India
to buy the rough diamond and give them for cutting and polishing to the diamond units in the state," he said.
