Modi ridiculed the Congress-led regime saying, "In Congress rule, one has to be in queue for everything right from getting ration, essential commodities, and employment.
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi charged the Congress with playing "votebank" politics over the issue of hanging Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and took a dig at the UPA government for its stand on Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrochi.
Addressing the NDA rally here, Modi ridiculed the Congress-led regime saying, "In Congress rule, one has to be in queue for everything right from getting ration, essential commodities, and employment.
"In fact, Congress has become so used to queues, that it says even Afzal Guru's file is in queue. Have you ever heard that somebody has to be in queue even for capital punishment?"
Countering Rahul Gandhi, who had made overtures to woo Sikhs during his rally on Satuday, Modi asked why the Congress government, which had taken "just 15 minutes" to decide on the death sentence of a youth of the community who was convicted for killing then Army chief General Vaidya in the 1980s, has "delayed" the hanging of Afzal Guru.
"The Sikh youth's family had submitted a mercy petition after he was awarded death sentence by the Supreme Court, but your (Rahul) family's government took just 15 minutes to decide in the Cabinet to hang him and 24 hours later he was hanged. But in case of Afzal Guru, his hanging is being delayed because of the votebank politics," Modi alleged.
The Gujarat chief minister also said, "While prime minister Manmohan Singh says Quattrochi should not be harassed when there is no proof against him, I would like to ask him as to why he is quiet on the plight of millions of Tamils who are facing atrocities in Sri Lanka?"
Modi also lauded BJP's prime ministerial candidate LK Advani for introducing the Ladli Lakshmi scheme for the benefit of girl child and for promising to introduce the "one rank-one pension" scale for the armed forces in the party's manifesto.
He appealed to the people to unite against the shameful practice of female foeticide which, he said, is prevalent in north Indian states.
Further, Modi blamed the UPA government for not implementing the river interlinking scheme, which had been introduced by former prime minister AB Vajpayee.
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