Modi also chose the occasion to urge the Election Commission to frame some rule under which a party, which comes to power, should be asked after remaining in power about how many of the promises made in its manifesto were fulfilled.
Addressing a pre-dominantly tribal gathering, Modi accused Congress of ignoring the welfare of tribals.
“These Congress people had no idea that our tribals brothers and sisters also live in the country. A number of Congress governments came to power in last sixty years. Nehru became Prime Minister. But they never thought about creating a ministry for the welfare of tribals,” he said.
He said that it was NDA's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who created a dedicated ministry for tribals and earmarked a separate budget for them.
“A number of Congress governments came but they did not give power in your hands....Vajpayeeji gave us Jharkhand, he gave the right to us to decide how should it progress.... Nehruji had mocked at the demand for Jharkhand.
“Now that Jharkhand is in place, Congress is adopting all kinds of tactics (hathkanda) to capture power. They stand behind some one at one time and some other at the other time,” the BJP leader said, alluding to the different allies Congress had chosen in the state in the last few years.
