Narendra Modi latest rally

Varanasi: Modi praises UP, tries to woo people ahead of 2014 LS polls:-
Varanasi: After a spectacular performance in the recently concluded Assembly elections, BJP prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed a public rally in Varanasi.
Not leaving a stone unturned to slam the Congress party, Modi held Congress responsible for poverty, inflation. He said, "If there is someone responsible for poverty it is one family that has kept the nation in poverty. People are uprooting the Congress and electing BJP governments."
In an attempt to woo people of Uttar Pradesh ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha polls, he praised the state and highlighted its importance not on the politicals grounds but also on the developmental grounds. He said, "Uttar Pradesh alone can fill the stomach of whole of Europe."
Highlighting state's inmportance on the political ground, he said, "Is Uttar Pradesh only about making governments? My thought is not so narrow. Uttar Pradesh can become the destiny maker of new India. It is said without Uttar Pradesh no government can be formed. This thought is an insult to UP. Is UP about increasing numbers in Parliament."
Modi also remarked that the country cannot progress without the development of Uttar Pradesh, one of the biggest states of India. He said, "For us Uttar Pradesh is not a political playgrounds but it is the most important land for India's development. If India wants stability it cannot come without Uttar Pradesh. Without Uttar Pradesh development, India's development cannot happen."
Modi's visit to the state and heaping words of praise can be seen as an attempt to cozying up to the people Uttar Pradesh ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha polls as the state holds the maximum number of seats, that is 80.
Making his stand clear that he is here to bring change, Modi said, "I have come not with promises but with the intention to bring change. I don't just say, I do things, I deliver."
Hitting out at the Centre for being unable to purify river Ganga, Modi said, "To purify the Ganga we have to make Delhi and Lucknow pure first. Those who could not manage the Ganga, how can they manage the nation."
He added, "UPA made a scheme to clean the Ganga. A lot of campaigns were done and people thought something will be done. People want to know what the government has done and how much money was spent on cleaning Ganga. But I want to say that in last five years except meeting three times, no step was taken by the Centre."
Pointing the importance of river Ganga, he said, "If Sabarmati can be purified, why not Ganga? If Sabarmati can change the fate of Gujarat, then Ganga can change the fate of the nation."