Click to play videoNew Delhi: After its split with the BJD in Orissa, the BJP seems doing everything in its power to strengthen its base in the state. After Advani, the party had its star campaigner Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi addressing as many as five public meetings across the state on Sunday.
And while Modi could not address his scheduled rally at Raika in Kandhamal due to technical snags, he did rake up the issue at his other rallies.
“I apologise to the Kandhamal people that I couldn’t make it for the rally, but I assure them that I am with them in fighting for their rights and speaking against the killing o f Swami Laxmananda Saraswati,” he said.
The saffron leader also took on the UPA and its ally Sharad Pawar and said the UPA is disintegrating with its allies leaving it. He termed Sharad Pawar an opportunist who's not able to make up his mind on whom to side with.
“Sharad Pawar is such an coward. He did not attend a rally because there was no plane available? Are there no planes in Mumbai? All this is cowardice,” he said.
Modi also promised that if voted to power, he would help Orissa, one India's poorest states, develop and bring back all the "black money deposited in foreign banks".
However, BJP's star campaigner remained silent on issues like saffron terror, stressing that his party is fighting the election on the issue of development and security.
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