The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) says there have been no attacks on Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy after Narendra Modi came to power.
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“Tamil Nadu should decide between a government that will work for them and one that would put them in trouble”, he said while addressing a public meeting in Chennai, for the first time after taking over as Prime Minister.
A bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh issued notice on the PIL that sought a court-monitored probe in the case.
The Prime Minister pointed out that the educated youth of Kerala would not have to go out of the State in search of jobs if there were agriculture-based industries here but the State missed that bus due to its failure to bring modernisation in farming.
Announcing his adage for BJP-NDA’s election campaign in Malayalam, “Nammal Onnaavanam, Naadu Nannaavanam” (We should unite for the land to progress), Modi said the NDA would become a strong third force in the State with this election.
The Prime Minister said though the people of Kerala are well educated and knowledgeable, they failed to understand that they had been “looted” in the past 60 years by the UDF and CPI(M)-led LDF governments which ruled the state alternately.
Modi said his government had taken so many steps to curb corruption that “the corrupt are feeling nervous”. He said the Centre included two persons from Kerala in the Parliament when it got the opportunity to do so.
“The government in Delhi and Minister Sushma Swaraj worked for nights together to see that these nurses are brought back safely”. “A poor Dalit girl was brutally raped and murdered last week”.
Enthused by its good showing in the last year’s local bodies election, the party is hoping to make it to the state assembly this time. The Communists oppose modern agricultural practices and techniques that affect the farmers, he added.
Winding up his speech, Modi called upon the people of Kerala to vote for change and elect the National Democratic Alliance “because a change is the need of the hour in Kerala”.
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Talking about the floods, he said that earlier it took three days for the news to reach the centre, but his government had acted swiftly. The chopper, arranged by the BJP for facilitating Natesan’s election rallies, arrived in Alappuzha yesterday morning, said a party source.
