Again, Modi gets his facts wrong , this time at Kolkata rally

Kolkata: BJP’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi got his facts wrong during a rally in the West Bengal capital on Wednesday.

At the rally, Modi mentioned that only 35 percent schools in the state have electricity and that 60 percent girls’ schools in the state have toilets.

Going by the facts, the report of a review committee meeting held on Wednesday, 98 percent schools in West Bengal have toilets while most primary, upper primary, secondary and higher secondary schools have uninterrupted power supply.

In fact, West Bengal is the only state in India that has a power bank.
Addressing a gathering after the inauguration of a multi-speciality hospital in Gujarat’s Kheda district on November 10 last year, Modi had said, “Syama Prasad Mookerjee was a revolutionary. He died in 1930 in London. But the Congress never bothered to bring back his ashes to the country.”
At a rally in Punjab in June last year, Modi had held India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru responsible for Mookerjee’s death.

Modi said, “Nehru should have sent an emissary to bring the ashes (of Mookerjee) back. The Congress government didn’t get them back till 2003. It was me who brought the ashes to India in 2003.”

Modi later apologised for the blunder. But his critics on Twitter described him as “his own party’s history”.

At the October 27 Patna rally – held hours after serial blasts rocked the Bihar capital – Modi had said, “When we are reminded of the Gupta Dynasty, we are reminded of Chandragupta’s rajneeti.”

Bihar chief minister and Modi’s political rival, Nitish Kumar, had replied saying, “The BJP has amazing grasp of history. They should know Chandragupta was of Maurya dynasty, not of Gupta dynasty.