 "God protected me: Modi")
Referring to last year's blasts targeting his rally in Patna, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Prime Ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi said that "God" protected him.
"I am lucky to have survived the Patna serial blasts to be within your midst ... Had the God been not with me, I would not be here," he said.
Recalling scenes of blood splattered around the Gandhi Maidan after serial blasts at his October 27 rally in Patna, Modi hailed the valour of the huge number of people who attended it despite the blasts taking place one after another.
Congress, he alleged, helped Lalu walk out of jail and indulged in all sorts of backroom deals with him but refrained from acknowledging the relation in public as they feared it would dent their votes outside.
"Is it not a fact that mother and son helped Lalu to get out of jail (on bail after being convicted for five years in the fodder scam)?" the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate asked at an election meeting here.
"I am lucky to have survived the Patna serial blasts to be within your midst ... Had the God been not with me, I would not be here," he said.
Recalling scenes of blood splattered around the Gandhi Maidan after serial blasts at his October 27 rally in Patna, Modi hailed the valour of the huge number of people who attended it despite the blasts taking place one after another.
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"If god protected me then, this is the land in Bihar that will make me win on May 16," he said. He also tore into the Congress, particularly its President Sonia Gandhi and her son and Party Vice President Rahul Gandhi over its tie up with RJD Chief Lalu Prasad. Narendra Modi today said nobody can save the government of the "mother and son" from "certain defeat".
Congress, he alleged, helped Lalu walk out of jail and indulged in all sorts of backroom deals with him but refrained from acknowledging the relation in public as they feared it would dent their votes outside.
"Is it not a fact that mother and son helped Lalu to get out of jail (on bail after being convicted for five years in the fodder scam)?" the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate asked at an election meeting here.
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