BJP will ensure development of all, appeasement of none in Bengal, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused the Trinamool Congress of indulging in politics of appeasement and asserted that the BJP would give Bengal a authorities that “ensures development of all, appeasement of none”.

Addressing a public rally at Chinsurah in Hooghly district, Mr. Modi raised the difficulty of the home of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, who wrote “Vande Mataram”, mendacity in a dilapidated state. The Prime Minister described this as an insult to the satisfaction of West Bengal. He alleged that there was a selected form of politics behind such developments.

“It is the kind of politics that gives more importance to vote bank than the love for the nation. It is that kind of politics that prevents the people of the State from organising Durga Puja and preventing immersion of idols,” he noticed.

Development of the State was not doable so long as lower cash tradition, syndicate rule and “tolabaji [extortion]” persevered, he stated. He known as for “asal parivartan [real change]”. “It is important for the lotus to bloom in the State so that the real change which the youth of the State have been dreaming of can be ushered in,” he said.

Hooghly district, which was as soon as the hub of industries, was an emblem of the decadence that successive regimes have delivered to the State. “ Once there were folk songs of men from different parts of country going to Calcutta… Now the people of the district and the State have to go to other States for work. The BJP government that you have decided to bring to power will start working and taking steps to change the situation. The people of the State have made up their mind to change the government,” he stated in his half an hour speech.

Piped water provide

The Prime Minister, whereas concentrating on the Trinamool Congress authorities on the denial of advantages of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi and Ayushman Bharat, additionally touched upon the topic of provide of piped water in rural households of the State. He stated that of the 1.5 crore to 1.75 crore rural households in the State, piped water was reaching solely two lakh households and had elevated to 9 lakh households after the Centre’s intervention.

“The pace at which the State government is working here to provide piped water connectivity, it will take several years. The Centre sent ₹1,700 crore for piped water connectivity. Of this, only ₹ 609 crore has been spent,” he said.

During the day, Mr. Modi additionally inaugurated the extension of Metro Railway from Noapara to Dakshineswar and flagged off the primary service on this stretch. This 4.1 km extension has been constructed at a price of ₹464 crore.

Speaking on the occasion organised by Ministry of Railways, he stated Kolkata had the oldest Metro in the nation, however extensions and modernisation happened solely in the the previous six years. The extension would profit passengers of Hooghly, Howrah and North 24 Parganas districts and cut back the commute time between the 2 locations from 90 minutes to 25 minutes.