BJP Terms PM's Speech Disappointing, Modi Raises Infiltration Issue

"Why were you silent on Mumbai," Modi said referring to prime minister's speech.

He said he heard the speech as a common man and was and was "disappointed".

"I saw the speech not as a CM but as a common man and found only disappointment in it...What happened to the promises of cheap interest rates for the middle class people to build houses or cheap education loans? If you make promises but don't keep them, how do you expect the people of India to believe you," he said.

BJP leader L. K. Advani also raised the issue of ethnic violence in Assam and called upon prime minister to ensure rehabilitation of the displaced people .

"The prime minister, who is elected from Assam, should ensure that the people displaced in the violence are rehabilitated soon," he said.

BJP president Nitin Gadkari, who unfurled the tricolour at the party's office in Ahmedabad, said  that prime minister had talked of returning to high growth path but it seemed difficult.