BJPs PM candidate Narendra Modi,inaugurating a Muslim-Trust-run hospital here on Sunday,blamed the Congress for partition,changing geography and twisting history. Ahead of Maulana Abul Kalam Azads birth anniversary,Modi criticised the Congress for ignoring him and other other freedom fighters. Modi,trying hard to find acceptability among the minorities,attacked the Congress saying it changed not only the geography,but also history of India. Inaugurating Reliable Hospital,run by an all-Muslim Trust in Galteshwar in Balasinor,a predominantly Muslim area,which used to be a Congress bastion,Modi said referring to Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs statement in Chhattisgarh that he was talking of history and geography while he should have been discussing economy. Mr Prime Minister,I want to know,the country wants to know,who changed the geography of India so that your own village is not a part of India. who split India., he said referring to the partition and Singhs village,which is now in Pakistan. Why is China squatting at the doors of India? Geography of India is being changed even by the UPA government who wants to divert the historic Dandi Heritage Route by thirty kilometres, Modi said quoting from a Government of India letter to his office. He said,Six months back,your government wrote a letter to me suggesting that when building the Dandi heritage route,if we take a 30-km detour from the path walked by Mahatma Gandhi,it would be convenient. Tell me brothers,who is changing the geography of Mahatma Gandhi? You are giving lessons in history and geography in Chhattisgarh! He asked Singh what political compulsion forced the Centre to still describe the 1857 Freedom Movement as mutiny in textbooks. He wanted to know why the Centre had forgotten those who were imprisoned in Andaman and Nicobar in their fight for freedom.
