Today at India Gate, New Delhi a mega event was organised to mark the completion of two years of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. The Facebook report says Modi makes an average of 2.8 posts per day.
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The Prime Minister said after coming to power his government had opened up more of the economy to foreign investment and made changes to curb corruption, fill gaps in rural infrastructure and make it easier to do business.
Launching a scathing attack on the Congress, PM Modi said that although the country is transforming, the minds of some of its people are not. “UP ka Ram kaun hoga ye waha ki janta tay kar legi (people will decide who UP’s Ram will be)”, he said. “This also increases our confidence…On one hand there is the agenda of development and on the other hand is the agenda of obstructionism”, he said, according to PTI.
“Jinhone aaj tak khaya hai, unhe to takleef honi hi hai”.
Shah said the government had also ended the policy paralysis that marked the 10-year UPA rule and created hope among the people.
“I have actually undertaken the maximum reforms”, Modi said in an interview to the Wall Street Journal on the eve of his second anniversary in office.
In this photograph taken on May 24, 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses the audience during the swearing-in ceremony of Sarbananda Sonowal as the Chief Minister of the north-eastern state of Assam in Guwahati.
Ahead of the crucial assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may include some new faces from the state in his Cabinet.
“As long as we do not remember the work done during the days of the previous government, we will not be able to realise that what a big task has been accomplished”, he said. “We will work towards the uplift and empowerment of the poor, Dalits, tribals, and women”, he said. “Seven thousand villages have already been provided with electricity-most of them were in UP”, he said.
Citing an example, he said that making payments through direct benefit transfer and using Aadhaar, leakage of Rs 15,000 crore in LPG subsidy alone was saved.
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Bollywood actor R Madhavan and achor Neelam Sharma hosted the programme which was also attended by Union Ministers Arun Jaitley, Birender Singh, Maneka Gandhi, Najma Heptulla, Ram Vilas Paswan, Uma Bharti, Harsimrat Kaur Badal and J P Nadda. We are taking states along.
