Keshubhai now targets CM’s sadbhavana

“Had there been real sadbhavana in him (Modi),this would have come out in 2002,” Keshubhai said.

The former CM charged Modi with undoing all the good work and administrative reforms done during his tenure and said time was ripe to throw out the current regime of “terror and oppression”.

He said Modi was patting self on the back while indulging in falsehoods for convincing people of his non-existing achievements. All his actions,he said,were aimed at self-aggrandisement and for strengthening of own hands instead of creating an enabling environment for the people to grow.

“If these activities are not brought under control,the entire economy of the state would go to shreds due to high level corruption and black money,” he said.

Projects like GIFT City,he said,were to fool people into believing them whereas the fact was that there were no takers for them till date.

On Modi’s invitation to Tata Motors to set up the Nano car project in the state,he said this “proved a failure in employment generation for locals even after throwing away Rs 33,000 crore to the firm which gave jobs to just a few hundred locals”.

Former CM Suresh Mehta,who highlighted “achievements” of the Keshubhai government vis-a-vis the Congress and BJP regimes,said that on taking stock of happenings of the past decade,it became clear that poverty and unemployment had grown despite all sorts of Garib Kalyan Melas and admission drives all these years.

“The number of BPL families has gone up from 23 lakh in 2005 to 38 lakh in 2011 whereas the number of school-going children has come down to 81.4 lakh in 2011 from 82.54 lakh in 2002 despite the population growing from five crore to six crore,” he said.

Mehta said the main objective of these “melas and utsavs” was to keep people’s attention away from the governance radar “so that they don’t have time to see the deteriorating governance”.