Modi seeks image makeover from ‘pro rich’ to ‘pro poor’
2010-02-08 [14:20:47 hrs] | | Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, popularly called the ‘CEO of Gujarat’, has reportedly organised ‘Garib Kalyan Melas’ across the state in an attempt to get a ‘pro-poor’ image makeover, even as the Opposition tagged the move as a ‘tamasha’.
Modi has already held at least 25 of the 50 ‘Garib Kalyan Melas’ in the state which he claims have given various government scheme benefits directly to the poor without the involvement of any middlemen.
However, Opposition Congress has strongly criticised this image shift from ‘pro-rich’ to ‘pro-poor’.
Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi said, ‘the attempt by organising such Garib Kalyan Melas is surely of image makeover from being called pro-rich to pro-poor, but the Chief Minister will not succeed. He is trying to follow Rahul Gandhi but people know the BJP's truth.’
A senior Congress leader Arjun Modhvadia said, ‘the poor have traditionally voted for Congress while the vote bank of BJP is upper class. The chief minister is trying to woo poor people by organising such tamasha.’
The Opposition had mounted a concerted attack on Modi during the 2007 state election campaign and also in the run up to the last Lok Sabha elections, calling him a ‘CEO Chief Minister’ working for benefits of industrialists and ignoring the poor.
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