For a change, Modi roars against China

• ‘I will never allow Arunachal Pradesh to disappear’
• ‘Hindu migrants from B’desh must be accommodated’
• BJP likely to win 50% seats in UP, Bihar: Poll survey
• Pawar takes a U-turn, slams Modi for Gujarat riots
• Cannot afford luxury of failed idea: BJP on Third Front

Pasighat: Wading into a foreign policy issue for the first time, Narendra Modi asked China to shed its "expansionist mindset", making it clear that no power on earth can snatch Arunachal Pradesh from India.

"China should shed its expansionist policy and forge bilateral ties with India for peace, progress and prosperity of both the nations," the BJP's prime ministerial candidate said addressing a meeting here in his current election campaign.

"Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India and will always remain so. No power can snatch it from us. People of Arunachal Pradesh didn't come under pressure or fear of China," he said.

"I swear in the name of this soil that I will never allow the state to disappear...breakdown and to bow down," Mr Modi said to a thunderous applause from people gathered near the mighty Siang River.

He said China should shed its expansionist mindset because the world of today does not accept it. The entire world is moving towards development, he said.

"China needs to change its stand. China should shed its expansionist mindset and adopt the plank of development. Focus is on the development all over the world," the Gujarat Chief Minister said. Modi said Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated in the country and detention camps would be done away with once his party comes to power. "As soon as we come to power at the Centre, detention camps housing Hindu migrants from Bangladesh will be done away with," Modi told a public rally at Ramnagar here.

"We have a responsibility toward Hindus who are harassed and suffer in other countries. Where will they go? India is the only place for them. Our government cannot continue to harass them. We will have to accommodate them here," he said.

Modi said, “Next to Assam is Bangladesh and next to Gujarat is Pakistan. Due to Bangladesh people in Assam are troubled and due to me Pakistan is worried."

Raising the contentious issue of illegal immigrants in Assam, the Gujarat Chief Minister stressed on sending back the immigrants to the neighbouring country. BJP  is expected to win 61 seats in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the upcoming crucial General Elections, a poll survey conducted by a news channel has predicted.

The poll survey indicates that the BJP is expected to increase its tally significantly and bag 40 out of 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh and rest 21 out of 40 seats in Bihar.

In what is more interesting is that the Modi-powered BJP's popularity is rising day by day. A similar poll survey in Jaunary had predicted that the principle opposition party would win 35 seats in UP.

The Congress, which is facing its worst ever crisis since independence, is projected to manage 11 seats in UP, down from the 21 it bagged in 2009 in the crucial state. NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who had recently deprecated Narendra Modi's condemnation over Gujarat riots, took a U-turn and targeted BJP's PM candidate for "mass murder", drawing sharp criticism from the opposition party. Pawar slammed Modi's development model and accused him of ignoring certain sections of the society.

Rubbishing the proposed Third Front of the Left and regional parties, BJP said the country cannot afford the luxury of a "failed idea". Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley said the country cannot afford such an idea, in an obvious reference to the earlier attempts by the similar formation to offer a political alternative at the Centre which came unstuck later.