Selling Rainbows ?

On the last day of the recently concluded BJP session in Delhi , Narendra Modi announced ,

" If voted to power in April 2014 elections , BJP will build 100 new SMART cities , in 5 years "

That is 20 new cities to be built EVERY YEAR  !

By sheer coincidence ( no doubt ) , China's current target is also 20 cities / year

But then China has an enviable track record of having actually built , 500 brand NEW cities since 1978

That is approx 14 new cities per year

Non - stop , year after year , for the last 34 years  !

Capable of accommodating 700 million citizens

Is Narendra Modi being audacious  ?

Not at all

Earlier , in Dec 2012 ( before Assembly elections in Gujarat ) , BJP manifesto said ,

" If voted to power , we will build 50 Lakh houses ( of course , for the poor ) in next 5 years  "

That is 2,739 houses per day

Or , 10,68,210 new houses in the last 390 days , since BJP came to power  !

Cannot find these  ?

Silly  !

How can you build houses , unless you first build a brand NEW city , once every 18 days  ?

Can't you see , how we are building city of Dholera , for the last 3 years ?

Why don't you go ask AAP ,

" Where are those brand new  6  schools that you promised to build in the last 24 days , since coming to power ( @ one school every 4 days )  "

A cynic once said ,

"  Like Laddoos , promises are meant to be broken ! "

And rainbows exist in the sky - for a very brief period , before elections  !

*   hemen  parekh  (  23  Jan  2014  /  Mumbai  )