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Live reporting: 'Congress-free India' is need of the hour, says Narendra Modi at Mumbai rally

Mumbai: Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi today exhorted the people of India to oust Congress for the betterment of the country.Addressing a huge gathering in Mumbai billed as ‘Mahagarjana rally', 

The reason for the problems the country faces is not our history or geography but Congress-ruled governments, he said.

“The voice of ‘Congress-free India' should go out from Mumbai, which first gave the call of ‘Quit India' against British rule,” the Gujarat Chief Minister said.

“I wish that in 2014 elections, votes should be sought for the country and not in the name of party. We want to say, “Vote for India”, to free the country of dynastic rule, corruption, inflation, bad governance and to maintain unity of the country,” he said.

Minorityism and communalism have been the tradition of Congress, Modi said.

“The Manmohan Singh government selected 90 districts in the country where Muslims were in majority and announced big schemes and budget for their welfare. Muslims began to think that something good would come out of it. Media also wrote a lot,” he said.

“But now, someone asked a question in Parliament about the expenditure incurred on minority welfare projects in the districts. The government told Parliament that in three years not a single rupee has been spent,” he said.

“This is an example of the vote bank politics of Congress,” the BJP leader said.