Narendra Modi invokes Lord Ram at Faizabad rally, EC seeks report

FAIZABAD: With the portrait of Lord Ram providing the backdrop, Narendra Modi on Monday asked people "living" in the birthplace of the Hindu deity to teach Congress and those who support it a lesson for not fulfilling electoral promises.

Modi skirted any reference to his party's pet theme of building Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, which is part of the district and epicentre of Ram Mandir movement, but made several references to Lord Ram to exhort people to defeat Congress, SP and BSP and support BJP.

"This is the land of Lord Ram where people believed in 'pran jaye par vachan na jaye' (one may lose life but cannot break promise). Can you pardon those who broke their promises?," the BJP prime ministerial candidate said at the rally, referring to the ruling party's unfulfilled promise of providing 10 crore jobs to people.

He also took on SP, which is in power in UP, and Mayawati-led BSP, saying they are enemies in Lucknow but friends in Delhi.

"They save the government of 'maa-beta (Sonia-Rahul)'. The Congress saves them from CBI. It protects netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) from CBI. They believe in you scratch my back, I scratch yours.

The SP and BSP governments spend their time in settling scores with each other. "Law and order is so bad that people prefer buying guns to providing medical care to their parents and good education to their children," he said.

Addressing the gathering, Modi said, "I assure you from Bhagwan Ram's land, I will fight corruption throughout my life. I have seen poverty, that's why I have the courage to say this." He also invoked Ram's name while making a pitch for the BJP. He said that the people of Faizabad should allow a lotus to bloom in the "land of Shri Ram".

Modi further courted controversy by saying that even Mahatma Gandhi invoked the name of Ram. Modi said that when Mahatma Gandhi was asked about his idea of an ideal nation, he said that there should be Ram Rajya. Modi said that by Ram Rajya, Mahatma meant development for all.

Modi was addressing the gathering to seek votes for Lallu Singh, BJP's candidate for Faizabad Lok Sabha seat.

The EC has sough a report from the Faizabad district magistrate on Narendra Modi's speech and stage backdrop, UP chief electoral officer Umesh Sinha said.

(With inputs from PTI)

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