In the run-up to the State assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, while addressing an election rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni, reiterated his declaration on the government’s decision to extend the free ration scheme for the poor for five years.
“I have come out of poverty, I don’t have to read in books what poverty is. I can feel the pain of the poor. Therefore, your son, your brother, has made a big decision in his mind that when the ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana’ is completed in December, we will guarantee a free ration for the next 5 years,” PM Modi during his address in Seoni today.
The Prime Minister said the extension of the free ration scheme is “guarantee of Modi”. He added, “This is BJP, for which every poor, backward, Dalit, tribal… is a member of the BJP family. A member of my family.”
The Prime Minister also launched a veiled attack against the Congress party and said that the party can never be trusted. “Congress can never be trusted. The Congress’ slogan is “Garib ke jeb saaf, kaam half se bhi half” (The poor’s pocket is clean, the work is half of the half), which means Congress does not work towards development, but it definitely empties the poor people’s pockets,” PM Modi said.