'Following JP's footsteps', says Modi on action against the corrupt

Rajkot (Gujarat), Oct 11 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi while paying tributes to Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan on his birth anniversary on Tuesday here said that he was only following his footsteps and allowing agencies to catch the corrupt, but some parties were making a hue and cry over it.

The PM said JP Narayan had launched a movement to make the country corruption free.

He was addressing a public gathering in Jamkandorna of Gujarat's Rajkot district. He taunted the Congress party without taking its name, "Agencies are investigating corruption allegations of some political leaders and parties, instead of cooperating with the agencies, they are attempting to tarnish the image of agencies. Don't you think we should recover public money from such corrupt people?"

Talking about the development of Gujarat in the last 20 years, he said, "There were only 26 engineering colleges in the state, today there are 130 engineering colleges, ITIs have increased from 300 to 600 in Gujarat, Pharmacy colleges from 13 to 75, there are 36 medical colleges with 8,000 seats, this is the development state has achieved."

The PM also paid tributes to Hindu ideologue Nanaji Deshmukh.