PM Modi, Amit Shah tear into Congress and Nehru-Gandhis in Gujarat, seek to galvanise BJP workers

PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah addressed a BJP workers' rally in Gandhinagar ahead of the Gujarat Assembly elections. 

Kumar Shakti Shekhar
Kumar Shakti Shekhar  | Posted by Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar
New Delhi, October 16, 2017 | UPDATED 18:41 IST

Highlights

  • 1
    Modi announced that he would visit Gujarat again on October 22
  • 2
    He will inaugurate the Ghogha-Dahej Ro-Ro Ferry Service in South Gujarat
  • 3
    Shah said the BJP should get 150 out of 182 seats

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah today made a blistering attack on the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family, calling them anti-development. Besides lashing out at Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice-president Rahul Gandhi and first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Modi and Shah made a strong bid to galvanise the BJP workers.

Speaking in a BJP workers'rally in Gandhinagar, Modi announced that he would visit Gujarat again on October 22 post-Diwali to inaugurate his dream project Ghogha-Dahej Ro-Ro Ferry Service in South Gujarat. The service will cut down eight-hour water journey to just one hour, he said.

Modi also said only passengers would be able to use the service in the first phase. However, people with their vehicles such as cars and even trucks would be able to use in the second phase.

The prime minister, who generally spoke in Hindi, switched to Gujarati to address only the traders with regard to GST. He sought to allay their fears and said the centre was trying to make changes in GST to ameliorate the problems they were facing.

Shah on his part made the whole speech in Gujarati. He sang paeans on Modi and invoked the Gujarati pride sentiments.

Shah exhorted the voters to make the BJP victorious by three-fourths majority. "When Modi was the Gujarat chief minister, BJP had won 129 of the 182 seats. Now that he is the prime minister, BJP should get 150 seats," he said.

WATCH | Speeches by PM Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah and Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani at the Gujarat Gaurav Mahasammelan (Video courtesy: @BJP4India/Twitter)