Click to play videoNew Delhi: Narendra Modi, the master of political rhetoric is at it again. A week after daring the Central Government to remove Gujarat from the list of centrally assisted state, the Chief Minister is getting into battle mode again.
“I invite the whole Congress regime, please do not waste a single day, book me for sedition today and hang me. Let me see how they can,” he told a public function in Gujarat.
“But how can they? They have not been able to hang Afzal Guru,” he added, referring to the man convicted for the terror attack on Parliament in 2001.
It’s a strategy that reaped rich dividends to Modi during the Gujarat elections. Then he had taken on Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for calling him a maut ka saudagar (merchant of death).
Now the BJP is hoping to replicate that experience throughout the country. Terror is a huge talking point and the BJP looks at itself as the only party strong enough to deal with terror. So it’s not leaving any opportunity to hit out at the Centre.
“Make tougher laws than POTA and the country will run better,” declared BJP President Rajnath Singh.
Ironically, it’s Modi again who has kick-started this new campaign. BJP leader LK Advani may be the PM-in-waiting but it is Modi who is already looking ahead to a larger role in national politics.
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