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Live reporting: Narendra Modi shares dais, praises Yeddyurappa in Davangere rally

Davangere(Karnataka): Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, facing corruption charges, appeared on the dais with BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at a huge rally here today, in which Modi publicly praised the former

2:09 pm: Modi ends speech with Bharat Mata ki Jai, Vande Mataram.

2:08 pm: I want the help of the people of Karnataka for making our government in Delhi. I have got your love, now I want a Lotus from you. Send one Lotus from each Lok Sabha constituency from Karnataka.

2:06 pm: We have linked 20 small rivers in Gujarat, and our farmers in Gujarat are prosperous. I want to thank Yeddyurappa for keeping a separate farmers' budget. This was a pioneering effort in Karnataka. The crowd applauds on hearing Yeddyurappa's name.

2:05 pm:
The moment Modi names Yeddyurappa, the crowd breaks into applause. Modi praised Yeddyurappa's proposal for linking rivers.

2:04 pm: Leaders who come from Delhi do not have a word of sympathy for farmers, One of the farmers immolated himself before Karnataka assemblty.

1:58 pm: Why are the sugarcane farmers not getting better prices? Why are the textile factories of Davangere, once the Manchester of India, now closed? Why was cotton exports banned rendering thousands of people unemployed? Modi spells out  his Farm-Fibre-Fabric-Fashion-Foreign mantra. Our farmers should get value addition.

1:57 pm: In the temple of India's democracy,  pepper was sprayed into the eyes of MPs, and Congress was deeply embroiled in politics. Congress has no faith in the dignity of democracy.