Ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled later this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi amped up the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll pitch in Rajasthan on Monday. The Prime Minister visited Chittorgarh in Rajasthan where he launched multiple development projects. He will also visit Gwalior in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh later.
In Rajasthan, the PM launched and laid the foundation stone for development projects worth about Rs 7,000 crore. He will launch and lay and foundation stone of projects around Rs 19,260 crore in Madhya Pradesh.
He also held a mega road show in Chittorgarh amid chants of ‘Modi Modi’. Former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia and Union Minister Arjun Meghwal were also present with him.
PM Modi’s Rajasthan Visit
The Prime Minister has reached Chittorgarh for his official visit. While in the district, PM Modi inaugurated the Mehsana-Bathinda-Gurdaspur gas pipeline, built at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore in yet another step to promote a gas-based economy.
He also inaugurated Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited’s (HPCL) LPG plant in Abu Road. This plant will bottle and distribute 86 lakh cylinders per annum, resulting in a net reduction in running trucks carrying the cylinders by around 0.75 million kilometers annually, and will help to cut down about 0.5 million tons of CO2 emission per annum.
Among the other projects, PM Modi threw open a four-lane road on NH-12 (new NH-52) on the Darah-Jhalawar-Teendhar section, which has been constructed at a cost of more than Rs 1,480 crore. The road has been needed to ease the transportation of the produce of mines from the Kota and Jhalawar districts.
Foundation stones for constructing and widening the railway overbridge from two lanes to four in Sawai Madhopur were also laid. Further, PM Modi also inaugurated several railway projects, tourism facilities, and a permanent campus of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kota.
Speaking at the event, PM Modi paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversaries.
“Today is the birth anniversary of respected Bapu and Lal Bahadur Shastri ji, the source of inspiration for all of us. Yesterday, on October 1, the entire country including Rajasthan organized a big program regarding cleanliness. I express my gratitude to all the countrymen for making the cleanliness campaign a mass movement,” he said
“Bapu was very keen on cleanliness, self-reliance, and all-round development. In the last 9 years, the country has greatly expanded these values of Bapu. This is also reflected in the projects worth Rs 7,200 crore that have been launched in Chittorgarh today,” he added.
PM Modi’s Madhya Pradesh Visit
In MP, PM Modi will visit Gwalior, the stronghold of BJP leaders and Union Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narendra Singh Tomar. BJP’s performance was not very satisfactory in the Gwalior-Chambal region in the 2018 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh.
While in Gwalior, PM Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the Delhi-Vadodara Expressway, which has been developed at a cost of about Rs 11,895 crore. He will also lay the foundation stone for five different road projects worth over Rs 1,880 crore.
He is also set to initiate the ‘grih pravesh’ ceremony of over 2.2 lakh homes built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin. PM Modi will also inaugurate the houses constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban at a cost of about Rs 140 crore.
As per the PMO, Modi will lay the foundation stone of Jal Jeevan Mission projects worth over Rs 1,530 crore in Gwalior and Sheopur districts. These projects will together benefit more than 720 villages in the region.
He will also lay the foundation stone of nine health centres under the Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission and inaugurate and launch several other projects.
Assembly Elections In MP and Rajasthan
The Prime Minister’s official programmes come ahead of the possible announcement of assembly elections soon in five states. Assembly polls in both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are expected to be held in November-December.