Narendra Modi address ‘Barak Vikas Samavesh’ rally at Silchar in Assam Saturday Feb 22,2014

 

BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addressing a massive crowd of supporters and karyakartas at the ‘Barak Vikas Samavesh’ rally at Silchar in Assam, on the afternoon of Feb 22,2014 said Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated in the country and detention camps would be done away with once his party comes to power

"As soon as we come to power at the Centre, detention camps housing Hindu migrants from Bangladesh will be done away with," Narendra Modi told

"We have a responsibility toward Hindus who are harassed and suffer in other countries. Where will they go? India is the only place for them. Our government cannot continue to harass them. We will have to accommodate them here''

 Narendra Modi said that there were two kinds of people who came from Bangladesh to Assam; those brought as a part of a 'political conspiracy' for vote-bank politics of a particular party and others who were harassed in the neighbouring country.

He said that those brought for vote bank politics and smugglers from Bangladesh should be pushed back, while the second category must find a place in the country.

Stating that this did not mean that Assam has to bear the entire burden, he said "it will be unfair on them and they will be settled across the country with facilities to begin a new life."

Narendra Modi alleged that the Assam government as a part of its vote bank politics had violated human rights of Hindu migrants in detention camps

Attacking the Congress, Narendra Modi said that the 2014 Lok Sabha polls would mark the beginning of the end of the party.

"After the elections, India will become Congress free and a new road of progress and development will be heralded. The nation has tolerated 60 years of waste and destruction but give me a chance for 60 months and I will translate your dreams and aspirations into reality

 Attacking Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Narendra Modi said "When your chief minister hears that I am coming to his state, he loses his sleep. He came to Silchar two days ago to remind you of the promises made by him before the last elections but has he fulfilled them?"

He said Assam was bestowed with vast natural and human resources but still it was poor. "Who has looted and destroyed our Assam? Who has given those in power the license to loot?"

Assam, he said, faced devastating floods in 2012.

"Where was your chief minister then? He was in America and Japan and when asked about it, had said that he was studying flood management techniques in America. Can you build the future of the state and the youths with this kind of people?"

Stating that the East-West Corridor was initiated during the prime ministership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee connecting Saurashtra in the west to Silchar in the east, he said, "Our work is done but it remains incomplete in this region.

"Who is responsible for this? They have to answer the people because this is just not a mere road but a road to progress and development,