Mumbai (Maharashtra): The Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a swipe at the media and his opponents for portraying him in bad light in the recently concluded Assembly elections.
Modi said after his victory in Gujarat, the media and his opponents were criticising the people of Gujarat for electing him and this was not good.
The Chief Minister said: "after the election, people stopped targetting me but started making the people of Gujarat the target of their attack."
"Now that I have won the elections, the media and the opponents are saying that the people of Gujarat are bad. Had I lost the elections, the same people would have called the people of Gujarat intelligent," the BJP leader, who retained the power in the state, said.
Modi said he has been the target of criticism of the media and his opponents since the year 2002 and added that it has been a battlefield for him.
"If I have done something wrong, I am ready to face the consequences, but I know if I am right then ultimately the victory will be mine," he said.
Modi was addressing the concluding function of Jain International Trade Organisation (JITO) at NSC ground in Goregaon.
Source: www.hindu.com/
