CBI is Congress's cure-all, says Modi

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Press Trust of India Durg
Last Updated : Nov 14 2013 | 9:25 PM IST
BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today said that Congress was using CBI as "medicine" for every problem that afflicted it.
"Congress is in power in the Centre not because of its work... With CBI's support it is in power. It uses the investigation agency to threaten its allies... CBI is the medicine, the best remedy for problems of Congress," Modi said at a rally in Durg city.
"They also used this medicine against me, expecting that I would be cowed down. But Sonia-ji, I belong to the land of Sardar Patel and Mahatma Gandhi. We never bow down before false things," he said, hitting out directly at the Congress president.
While Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh gave the account of all the work done by him in the state, Congress did not, because it had not done anything, said Modi.
"People come from Delhi but they never give answers about inflation, unemployment, crime against women, killing of jawans on border, Indo-China conflict," Modi said, referring to recent visits to the poll-bound state by Sonia Gandhi, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
In 2009 elections, Congress promised to control price rise in 100 days after forming government at the Centre but failed to do so. "But Madam Sonia, PM and Shehzade never talk about this," Modi said.
"Being a mother, at least Soniaji should have realised the hunger of people and have spoken a few words on this during her visit here," he said.
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First Published: Nov 14 2013 | 9:25 PM IST

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