BJP begins offline registrations for Modi's Hyderabad rally
Hyderabad, July 22: BJP on Monday began the offline registration of participants for the public meeting to be addressed by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi here on August 11.
The online registration, being done by collecting Rs 5 from each participant, began about a week ago, state BJP unit president G Kishan Reddy said. He took exception to the criticism being levelled by Union Minister Manish Tewari and other Congress leaders against the party's move to collect Rs 5 from participants.
"There
is
a
debate
on
collecting
five
rupees.
Congress
leaders
are
sore
over
the
growing
popularity
of
Narendra
Modi.
Congress
needs
to
understand
that
small
donations
used
to
be
collected
even
when
Mahatma
Gandhiji
and
Lok
Nayak
Jayaprakash
Narayan.
We are doing this to help the victims of Uttarakhand rains and to make the youth a part of this service initiative," Reddy said. Objecting to the remarks of Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed that some terror outfits were formed after Gujarat riots, he asked whether terrorism did not exist prior to 2002.
"Was Congress not in power both in Maharashtra and Centre when the 1993 Bombay blasts took place? Did Rajiv Gandhi die of terrorism or not? Narendra Modi was not there then. Why are you trying to mislead people? Why are you trying to distort history? You are a failure on tackling terror," he said.
PTI