"Even Before 2014, You Used To Hear Figures": PM Modi's Welfare Pitch Citing Corruption Charges Against Opposition (image: twitter/BJP)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Shirdi Temple in Maharashtra and laid the foundation of multiple projects worth Rs 7500 crores on Thursday. He was accompanied by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar.
Today, PM Modi inaugurated the new Darshan Queue complex at Shirdi, dedicated the left bank (85km) canal network of the Nilwande Dam to the nation and launched the ‘Namo Shetkari Mahasanman Nidhi Yojana’. While addressing a public meeting in Maharashtra’s Shirdi, PM Modi said that BJP government follows ”sabka saath sabka vikas” mantra. He stressed that the welfare of the poor is the top priority of the double-engine government and also informed that as the country is advancing, the government”s budget for the welfare of the poor is also expanding.
Citing major welfare projects and crores of government funds spent for the advancement of the people, he says that even before 2014, people might have familiarised with numbers, but they were all figures associated with corruption or scams.”…Even before 2014, you used to hear figures, but what were those figures? Corruption worth so many lakhs, corruption worth so many crores, scam worth so many lakhs of crores and what is happening now?,” he asked.
Today, PM Modi also inaugurated and dedicated to the nation multiple development projects such as Ayush Hospital at Ahmednagar Civil Hospital, electrification of Kurduwadi-Latur Road railway section (186 Km), 3rd & 4th railway line connecting Jalgaon to Bhusaval (24.46 km), four laning of Sangli to Borgaon section of NH-166 (Package-I), and additional facilities at Manmad Terminal of Indian Oil Corporation Limited. Mr Modi has also laid the foundation stone of the Maternal & Child Health Wing at Ahmednagar Civil Hospital, and distributed Ayushman cards and Svamitva cards to beneficiaries.
Later today, Prime Minister visited Goa and inaugurated the 37th National Games at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Margao, Goa.
