Narendra Modi's state-wide yatra ends: Highlights

Pavagadh, Gujarat: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's  one-month state-wide yatra that kicked off his election campaign ends today in Pavagadh in the state.

Here are the highlights of his rally today:

• Today is World Day for the girl child
• When the 2001 census figures were released, I wept
• In Gujarat, as people have been educated, female foeticide had risen - we started a campaign in 2005
• I am proud that the sex ratio is improving - I congratulate the women of Gujarat
• A day in the not too distant future for a 1000 boys a 1000 girls will be born in the state
• I have completed a journey of 11 years in the state
• I wanted the girls in this state to be educated... I went village to village trying to spread the message
• It has taken me a long time to wash the sins of the previous regimes
• In 50 years the Congress did not realise that toilets have to be built in schools for girls
• My friends in the Congress did not realise in 40 tehsils in adivasi areas of the state, there wasn't a school that offered Science in class 12
• My Congress friends should drown in shame - how will the adivasis become doctors, engineers?
• Doctors were not available for pregnant women... We brought in the Chiranjeevi scheme - it won the Asia innovative award, WHO cites its example
• The state pays for all pregnant women, deliveries take place in hospitals
• The figure has gone up from 45% in 2001 to 98% now
• Gujarat did not have electricity. But today when 19 states had no electricity, Gujarat was the only state with lights on
• PM Manmohan Singh - China presents Shanghai to the world as an attraction... If you thought of Gujarat as your own, you would have showcased Gujarat and improved India's standing in the world
• Foreign investors were not allowed to come to Gujarat, we took up the challenge... Vibrant Gujarat brought people from 120 countries together
• The country needs another Jayprakash Narayan to get the country out of corruption that this government steeped in