Kolkata: 12:15 pm: Modi says public and private partnership in the health sector will be beneficial in future. "In our country if a child falls into a tubewell, there is 24-hour running commentary. One child's misfortune has the entire country in tears but when in our neighbourhood, a mother dies while giving birth, no one seems to care," says the Gujarat Chief Minister.
12:04 pm: Modi hits out at the way Centre is handling relationship with other countries. "Our soldiers are being beheaded and we are hosting lunch for those responsible and then preaching big things like diplomatic courtesy," the BJP leader says. "What happened in the case of Italian marines? We don't allow our prisoners to attend their mothers' funerals but we allowed Italian marines to go home to vote," Modi says.
12:02 Modi reads out his 5F formula for industrial growth: Farm to Fibre, Fibre to Fabric, Fabric to Fashion, Fashion to Foreign.
"What has Delhi given to India? It has kept the entire country in darkness," says Modi.
12:00 pm: Modi invites West Bengal's industry leaders to visit Gujarat. "We focused on tourism in Gujarat. Tourism in Gujarat is double the tourism growth of entire India in the past two years," he says.
11:55 am: Modi continues attack on UPA government and says, "The Central government's performance depends on state governments' performance, but the Centre does not care about this".
11:50 am: Narendra Modi says, "A committee has been formed to see how to reduce inflation and it has been over one year that the report has been submitted. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appreciated it as well, but we never heard of it again. Recently I asked the Prime Minister about the health of the report again".
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi reached out West Bengal's industry leaders on Tuesday during his address at the three chambers of commerce in Kolkata, while hitting out at the United Progressive Alliance government for allegedly ignoring development and being biased against the non-Congress ruled states.
"The UPA government is afraid of looking at development projects, there is no development work that is on. Bengal is also being discriminated against like Gujarat," said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, who addressed FICCI and Network 18's Think India Dialogue on Monday in New Delhi, said.
In a frontal attack, Modi accused the Central government of being "inactive" and ignoring the development projects. "The central machinery is on a standstill. The UPA govt is not looking at the calendar. They are looking at the clock, waiting to see what happens now," Modi lashed out.
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