Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched scathing attacks on Congress and said that the alleged scams of the grand-old-party used to make headlines for media every day before 2014.
Speaking at an event in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur, the Prime Minister hit out at Congress for eulogizing “only one family”, saying that the country did not get independence or achieve development solely because of it.
PM Modi In MP
In Jabalpur, PM Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of development projects in sectors such as road, rail, gas pipeline, housing and clean drinking water, it said.
PM Modi inaugurated a light house project at Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Built at a cost of about Rs 128 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban, the project will benefit more than 1,000 beneficiary families as part of his vision of “housing for all”.
He also laid the foundation stone of multiple Jal Jeevan Mission projects in Mandla, Jabalpur and Dindori districts worth over Rs 2,350 crore and inaugurated a drinking water project under the same scheme in Seoni district.
Further, the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone and dedicated to the nation multiple projects more than Rs 4,800 crore for improving the road infrastructure in the state.
He also dedicated to the nation rail projects worth more than Rs 1,850 crore and 352 km-long Vijaipur-Auraiyan-Phulpur pipeline project built at a cost of more than Rs 1,750 crore, among several other development facilities he launched during the visit.
Modi also performed a ceremony of “Veerangana Rani Durgavati Smarak aur Udyaan” in Jabalpur to commemorate the queen known for her valiant fight against the Mughals.
The Prime Minister said Congress scams used to make headlines every day before 2014 when the BJP came to power at the Centre.
After 2014, Modi cut their commission… We have destroyed Congress corruption structure,” he added.
“Projects worth Rs 12,000 crores of rupees have been inaugurated in the state. Be it a water and gas pipeline or a four-lane road network, it will change the lives of lakhs of people. It will benefit the farmers and new factories will be set up. Youth will get the employment,” he said..
PM Modi said that the Centre used technology to remove the fake names of 11 crore people from the government offices who were taking the share of poor people.
The Prime Minister said the party that remained in power for decades has done only one thing, just eulogizing one family. “Neither the nation got its independence because of just one family, nor did it develop because of them, Modi said at the public meeting, without naming the Congress or the Gandhi family,” he said.
PM Modi said his government ensured that women get gas connections through the Ujjwala scheme for cooking food instead of using the smoky chulha or wood-fired stove that was a health hazard.
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In Jodhpur, PM Modi laid the foundation stone and inaugurated multiple development projects in sectors like road, rail, aviation, health and higher education.
Addressing the event, he said Bikaner-Barmer-Jamnagar expressway corridor, and Delhi-Mumbai expressway are examples of advanced and high-tech infrastructure in Rajasthan.
Among the health projects for which he laid the foundation stone include a 350-bedded trauma centre and critical care hospital block at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, and seven critical care blocks under the Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission (PM-ABHIM) to be developed across the state. The centre at the AIIMS will be developed at a cost of more than Rs 350 crore.
The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone for the development of a state-of-the-art new terminal building at the Jodhpur airport costing Rs 480 crore and dedicated the IIT Jodhpur campus to the nation as well. The campus has been built at a cost of more than Rs 1,135 crore.
Among other projects, he laid the foundation stone of multiple road development projects to be built at a cumulative cost of about Rs 1,475 crore and also flagged off two new train services including Rajasthan’s only heritage train —
Valley Queen Heritage Train — and Runicha Express, connecting Jaisalmer to Delhi.
Later addressing a political programme, PM Modi said, “Today, people of Jodhpur and Marwad have received several gifts. For one of those gifts, I came prepared from Delhi. Yesterday, the BJP government decided that the women beneficiaries of Ujjwala will get LPG cylinder at Rs 600.”
‘”It is the resolution of BJP to make Rajasthan the number 1 state in Tourism…Who can make that happen?…Modi can’t do that, your vote can do that. With the power of your vote, BJP will form the Govt in Rajasthan and it will become the Number 1 state in Tourism,” he added.