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Express India
Bhuj, December 30 Chief Minister Narendra Modi, in his first public speech on Sunday after assuming office, condemned the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at Rawalpindi.
He said, at the same time, the Centre, under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, did not initiate any pro-active measure to unite the world against the looming threat of terrorism.

“I raise this issue here because any untoward incident taking place across the border would have its repercussion in our country through the contiguous border district of Kutch and Sindh,” said Modi at a function outside Gandhinagar.

<b>He said Bhutto's killing was not “an ordinary event”, and now all the humanist forces of the world should fight the menace of extremism. He said India should have taken the lead in organising such world forces, but surprisingly found no pro-active action from the Centre even three days after the Pakistani leader's assassination.

He said Sindh has been suffocating under the military rule for the past five decades, adding that while Islamabad brutally crushed the Jia Sindh movement (agitation for a separate Sindhi nation), its seeds still remain there. “The recent bloody incident there would revive the Jia Sindh movement. The oppressed people of Sindh, especially the Kolis and Dalits, who were bonded labourers there now require the help of the humanist forces,” said Modi. </b>

While Modi did not openly espouse supporting the movement now, he nevertheless, said that the Centre should keep an eye on the incidents happening across the border. <b>“If the leadership in Delhi misses the opportunity this time, it would go out of our hands for ever,” he said. </b>

Earlier in the day, Modi also inaugurated a pharmacy college, run by Veerayatan, at Jakhaia village near Mandvi. He said the share of the state in the country's pharmaceutical industry was a staggering 45 per cent and this could be possible only because of the far-sightedness of Gujarati businessmen.

Modi also expressed his love for Kutch at the occasion, saying that God had destined his first visit here after his swearing-in, adding that he would come here again in February. “The government has decided to organise a three-day Kutch Festival in the last week of February with a focus on Karo Dungar (black hills) overlooking the Rann of Kutch. A Kutch carnival at Bhuj on the lines of one in Goa would be organised, said Modi. 
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