Lok Sabha polls 2024: PM Modi starts ‘lucky Yavatmal’ campaign; Rejects the UPA regime
Prime Minister Modi has started campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections from Yavatmal where he gave the slogan ‘Ab Ki Baar, Modi Sarkar, 400 pairs’.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the ball rolling on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in Yavatmal and unveiled several projects worth around Rs 35,000 crore. He also took the opportunity to criticize the former UPA government over allegations of corruption. Moreover, Prime Minister Modi also reflected on his previous engagements in Yavatmal in 2014 and 2019, where he termed them as key ingredients in the BJP’s recipe for electoral success.
‘Ab Ki Baar, Modi Sarkar, 400 pairs’
Prime Minister Modi expressed confidence that they would cross 400 seats in Lok Sabha as the people “have come to their decision” that ‘Ab Ki Baar, Modi Sarkar, 400 pairs’, and this was evident from the huge number of women who had come to bless him. Prime Minister Modi also said that like Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the government has been working towards a mission for the country and whatever is done will be the foundation for progress in the next 25 years.
PM Modi says he has taken a vow
The Prime Minister said he had vowed to take development to every corner and dedicate himself full-time to the mission. The Prime Minister said that for progress, four sections of society must be taken into account: the poor, farmers, youth and women, and today he has done this by dedicating or dedicating programs and projects worth thousands of crores of rupees to them launch and help them improve their lives.
The government has also given rail, road and other infrastructure projects for better connectivity in the Vidarbha region, he said. Prime Minister Modi targeted INDIA’s opposition bloc and questioned the status of the people when the UPA was in power, when the Agriculture Minister (Sharad Pawar) was also from Maharashtra, but without naming names.
“The government announced large packages, but they were ‘looted’ halfway through and the poor, tribes and farmers received nothing. Today I pressed just one button and Rs 21,000 crore went straight to the bank accounts of thousands of farmers. This is called the ‘Modi Guarantee’. Earlier, out of a similar amount, Rs 18,000 crores would have been ‘looted’ along the way, but now that the poor are getting their full money, it is my assurance that all beneficiaries will get every amount in their bank accounts,” PM Modi said.
He said that farmers from Maharashtra have been given Rs 3,800 crore today and 11 crore farmers in the country have been given Rs 3 lakh crores so far, including Rs 30,000 crore to the farmers of this state, of which Rs 900 crore has gone to the farmers of Yavatmal went, and the amounts would benefit them enormously.
PM Modi’s focus on achieving developed country status
Prime Minister Modi reiterated that to achieve the status of a developed country, it was imperative to strengthen the rural economy, remove all difficulties faced by the villagers such as drinking and irrigation and implement other plans.
“Before 2014, there was a water crisis in all villages because the UPA government never worried about it. From 1947 to 2014, barely 15 percent of villagers had tap water connections at home. After 2014, we launched ‘Har Ghar Jal’ guarantee, and now almost 75 percent of village homes get piped water supply at their homes. In Maharashtra, earlier there were only 50,000 water taps in village houses, now around 1.25 crore people have water,” said Prime Minister Modi.
He attacked the previous regimes for abandoning about 300 major and minor irrigation projects in the country, but his government took up the work of reviving all of them, including 26 in Maharashtra, of which 12 have been completed and work is underway to complete the others.
The Prime Minister said that the government has committed to earn three crore women in the land ‘Lakhpati Didi’ and after giving them e-rickshaws today, the government will cover them under NaMo Drone Didi programme, train women and giving them drones for agriculture. purposes.
PM Modi said the Congress government has always pushed the poor and tribals behind, but his government has taken the most backward communities to the fore by giving them big plans and projects, and assured that the country will move faster in the next five years will make progress in improving the situation. lives of the masses.
Earlier, Prime Minister Modi dedicated and launched several development project programs worth around Rs 35,000 crore for Maharashtra in the presence of Governor Ramesh Bais, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar and other dignitaries.
(With input from agencies)