Broken promises: Congress questions Modi's betrayal

Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Paresh Dhanani on Saturday reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi of a series of promises he made to Gujarat in 2014, all of which remained unfulfilled. Dhanani listed the unfulfilled promises at a press conference addressed by state Congress president Amit Chavda and state-in-charge Rajiv Satav.

Calling it a day of betrayal, the Congress leaders wore black armbands and also released a booklet highlighting the betrayals by the BJP government at the Centre. Dhanani questioned Modi's inability to declare the Narmada Dam project as a project of national importance. "When he was a CM, Modi had promised that the project would be declared as project of national importance. It is four years and nothing has happened," the leader said.

The BJP, the said, was in power at the Centre, the state, in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation as well as in Gandhinagar, yet it has done nothing to rename Ahmedabad as Karnavati, a promise that the party had made to the people.

After four years, Chavda said, all that the Modi government had to show by way of achievement was rehashed and renamed policies of the UPA. "Be it Aadhaar or GST, all that the government has done is implement what the UPA had started. And these were the policies that Modi had criticised as a CM," Chavda said.

Blaming the Centre for the galloping fuel prices, Satav joked that even run rates in IPL matches are not so high as the petrol prices.