Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday sounded the bugle for Bharatiya Janata Party’s Lok Sabha polls campaign from ‘lucky Yavatmal’, launched a slew of projects worth around Rs 35,000 crore and slammed the previous UPA regime for graft.
Addressing a massive gathering of women, PM Modi recalled his pre-poll trips to Yavatmal – in 2014 for a ‘chai pe charcha’ after which the NDA got 300 parliamentary seats and later in 2019, when the ruling alliance went over 350 seats.
This time, PM Modi expressed confidence that they would cross 400 seats in Lok Sabha, as the people have “made up their minds” that ‘Ab Ki Baar, Modi Sarkar, 400 paar’, and this was evident from the huge number of women who had come to bless him.
Targetting the INDIA Opposition bloc, PM Modi questioned the people’s status when the UPA was in power, when the Agriculture Minister (Sharad Pawar) was also from Maharashtra, but without taking any names.
“The government announced big packages but it was ‘looted’ midway and the poor, tribals and farmers got nothing. Today, I just pressed one button and Rs 21,000 crore went straight to the bank accounts of thousands of farmers. That is called ‘Modi Guarantee’. Earlier, of a similar amount, Rs 18,000 crores would have been ‘looted’ en route, but now the poor get their full money, it’s my guarantee that all beneficiaries will get every paise in their bank accounts,” PM Modi said.