11 mistakes made by BJP’s Prime Minister candidate Narendra Modi during his Election campaign – will people make the “mistake” by electing him as the Prime Minister of India??? ................................................ 1) Modi’s Statement - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel proposed reservations for women in the Ahmedabad Municipality in 1919 Fact - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel proposed reservations for women in 1926, not 1919. 2) Modi’s Statement - Congress devalued Indias First War of Independence. - Meerut, February 2014. Facts - In February this year, speaking at Meerut, where the historical rising of 1857 first started, Modi would have done well to remember that the Congress was formed in 1885, nearly three decades after the First War of Independence took place in 1857. 3) Modi’s Statement - The PM gives his August 15 speech from Lal DarwazaThis he said at a rally in Bangalore. Fact: The August 15 speech is given from the Lal Quila and not the Lal Darwaza which is another historical structure that is located in the same area of Old Delhi 4) Modi’s Statement - Mohanlal Karamchand Gandhi - Addressing a rally in Dudu in November 2013, Modi made the cardinal mistake of referring to the Father of the Nation as Mohanlal Karamchand Gandhi instead of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 5) Modi’s Statement - Takshashila is in Bihar Fact: Takshashila is not in Bihar, it is situated in Pakistan. 6) Modi’s Statement - When we are reminded of the Gupta Dynasty we are reminded of Chandraguptas rajneeti. Fact: Modi mixed up his history here and referred to the Chandragupta of the Maurya dynasty and not the Gupta dynasty. Unless Modi was referring to Chandragupta II, who belonged to the Gupta dynasty. 7) Modi’s Statement - Alexanders army conquered the entire world but was defeated by the Biharis. Thats the might of this land.Interestingly, he was corrected by none other than Nitish Kumar who, in a point-by-point rebuttal to Modis Hunkar rally speech at Patna, said, Alexanders army never crossed Ganga and he wasnt defeated by Biharis. Fact: Alexanders last battle was against Porus, king of the Paurava empire in Punjab (Pakistan now). It was Jhelum which Alexander crossed and not the Ganges. 8) Modi’s Statement - Modi mixed up Shyamji Krishna Verma with Shyama Prasad MookherjeeModi described Shyama Prasad Mookherjee as a proud son of Gujarat. Modi credited Mookherjee with setting up the radical India House in London under the very noses of the English. He was considered the Guru of the Indian revolutionaries, he said. He died in 1930, but before he did so, he expressed the wish that his ashes be kept carefully so they could be returned to a free India. Fact: Mookherjee was born in Kolkata and not in Gujarat. He died in 1953 and not in 1930 in India and was cremated in West Bengal.Modis reference was in fact to Shyamaji Krishna Verma, a Sanskrit scholar and nationalist who was borin Mandvi city, Gujarat, on October 4, 1857. He went on to become the first non-Brahmin to be given the honorific Pandit by the Kashi pandits. It was Verma who founded the India House in London which soon became an incubator for such revolutionaries as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Bhikaji Cama, Virendranath Chattopadhyaya and Lala Hardayal. 9) Modi’s Statement - In 1947, one Rupee was equal to one Dollar Fact: The Rupee was tied to the Pound and not the Dollar and was at about 30 cents a rupee. 10) Modi’s Statement - These elections are for the 14th Lok Sabha Fact: These are the elections for the 16th Lok Sabha. Modi corrected himself after the mistake was pointed out by someone sitting behind him on the stage. 11) Modi’s Statement - Maharashtra has had 26 chief ministers since 1960 Fact: Actually, only 17 leaders have been sworn in 26 times as chief minister of the state since 1960. In the same time span, 14 people have been sworn in as chief minister of Gujarat 27 times.1. Maharashtra has had 26 chief ministers since 1960. ............................... Vande Matharam !!!!
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 00:03:54 +0000
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