Earlier,
he visited The Padmanabha Swamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram where he
jotted down a message in Gujarati after paying obeisance to the deity at
the temple. He also called on the Travancore Royal family at the
Kaudiar Palace.
Mr. Modi, who is the prime
ministerial candidate of BJP, addressed a meeting of the office-bearers
of the State unit of his party on Wednesday night. He told the State
leaders that the political climate in the country was favourable to BJP.
They should work together to take advantage of the climate.
Calling
upon them to take exploit the socio-political situation in Kerala, Mr.
Modi called for unrelenting fight against corruption. Though BJP does
not have representation in the Kerala Assembly, the potential of Right
to Information Act should be used to fight corruption and claiming the
rights of the downtrodden.
He said that the youth
were angry about corruption in the country. The potential of social
media should be used for the election campaign.
He
noted that 72 per cent of new jobs were now being created in Gujarat.
The Gujarat government had plans to set up a ‘statue of unity’ with
sculpture of Sardar Vallabhai Patel. Farmers should contribute iron from
their used implements for making the statue.
During
interaction with Mr. Modi, party leaders said that the BJP could win if
NSS, SNDP and other community organisations extended their support.
Mr.
Modi suggested that leaders should come up from Kerala to the national
level so that issues of concern to the State could be raised at the
national level. BJP national leaders Ram Lal and Bandaru Dattatreya,
State president V. Muraleedharan, O. Rajagopal, P. S. Sreedharan Pillai,
P.K. Krishnadas, K. Surendran and other leaders attended.
Earlier,
he presented Rs. 5 lakh from BJP’s Central funds to family of Indo
Tibetan Border Police constable P. G. Jomon who was killed during rescue
operations in the rain-ravaged Uttarakhand
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