Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said that for the first time under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the government started actively considering and implementing basic social welfare schemes like drinking water, health, education and roads missing since independence.
The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways made the remarks while laying the foundation stone of the 47-km-long National Highway project in Amethi costing Rs 753 crore and dedicating four other projects to the people on the 96th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Vajpayee.
Taking a jibe at the Congress and the Samajwadi Party, Gadkari said that the BJP is not a family (dynastic) party, but a party of its workers. , That’s why he said, I was able to occupy a chair on behalf of late Prime Minister Vajpayee despite not having MLA mother or MP father and being a simple party worker, painting party posters on walls and doing campaign work. Was. To party over loudspeaker on rickshaw.
Gadkari, described by Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya as the harbinger of the road revolution in the country and described by his cabinet colleague and Amethi MP Smriti Irani as the leader of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, also described how Vajpayee included them in his village. road construction programme. Gadkari recalled that it was Vajpayee who, after seeing his road construction work in Maharashtra, asked him to prepare a report to connect the country’s villages with roads.
“I later prepared a project report on the subject and Vajpayee started implementing it,” he said. Gadkari said that it is because of Vajpayee’s vision that out of India’s 6.5 lakh villages, more than five lakh villages have been connected with the nearest towns and cities today.
Alleging the dismal situation in the education and health sector during the pre-Vajpayee era, Gadkari said that in the field of education, either the building or the teacher or the student remained missing and even when all three were there, ” Education itself disappeared”. Similarly, in the health sector, either hospitals or doctors and nurses or medicines would go missing, and even when all three were there, people did not trust them and did not go for treatment, Gadkari said.
Addressing the rally, Irani recalled that in 2014, when Gadkari had visited Amethi for the first time, the people here had urged him with enthusiasm that now that there is a Narendra Modi government at the Centre, they should build a bypass road for him. The 30 year old demand should be fulfilled. to the town. And Gadkari had promised him that he would come again to Amethi only with this gift, Irani said, adding that it is not an occasion that Gadkari is here again to gift the bypass road as a part of the national highway to the people here. have come.
Talking about her work as MP from Amethi, Irani said that she is revealing for the first time that in her short tenure as MP from Amethi, she was involved in implementing various development projects worth Rs 83,000 crore. have been capable. Talking about Congress leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi’s recent visit to Amethi, Irani said the brothers and sisters had come here saying that they would stay here for two days but returned within two and a half hours.
He alleged that he could not take people with him and welcome them here during his visit, he had brought people from Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and neighboring Sant Kabir Nagar and these outsiders misbehaved with the local people. He went to the extent of, he alleged. Referring to Priyanka Gandhi’s election slogan of ‘Ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon’, Irani said it is ironic that women and girls of Amethi never got private toilets during the 70 years of Congress rule and they were given basic civic amenities. under this regime. Only Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He also attacked Rahul Gandhi, saying it is his misadventure that he doesn’t mind insulting people who take a dip in the Ganges – a reference to PM Modi’s bath in the river in Varanasi – and asking those people the meaning of Hindutva. Gain the courage of what Lord Rama lives in his heart and mind. On this occasion, UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said that there is no difference between SP, BSP and Congress. They are sides of the same coin. Maurya claimed that SP, BSP and Congress do politics in the name of caste and religion and said that as elections approach, they become Hindus.
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