Author: PTI
Publication: The Economic Times
Date: November 8, 2008
URL: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/PoliticsNation/Modi_flays_ATS/articleshow/3689537.cms
Defending the Indian Army in the Malegaon
blast case, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday said the UPA
government is dampening the morale of the armed forces by suspecting them
of terrorist activities.
Modi, addressing an election rally in Dhamtari,
80 kms from here, flayed the Mumbai ATS, for booking innocent army officials,
who had been working for the sake of motherland.
Modi also attacked Congress' new ally Samajwadi
Party for questioning the recent Batla House encounter in Delhi, in which
two terrorists and a policeman were killed.
"Such acts by responsbile ruling members
are deliberate attempts to demoralise the security forces," he said.
Harping on his pet issue of Congress president
Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin, Modi said that the local Congress candidate
is also an outsider, and added that, it is the tradition of Congress to get
leaders from outside and urged the people to vote for the BJP.
Given the fact that Dhamtari is considered
as the 'Punjab' of Chhattisgarh in terms of food grain production, Modi said,
the country's granaries are empty under the present UPA government, which
were never during the NDA rule.
