Ranchi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Jharkhand to inaugurate a power grid and transmission circuit, a gas pipeline project and reinvigorate the NTPC plant.
Following are the highlights of his speech:- I am glad the people of Jharkhand have chosen the path of development by giving us their support
- I am here to return the love you've given me with interest through development
- This state isn't a state that should be backward
- Jharkhand has the capabilities to be among India's most developed states
- Jharkhand can be more developed than Gujarat
- Atal Behari Vajpayee created Jharkhand with a dream that this land with rich natural resources will benefit the nation too
- This project was inaugurated by Vajpayee ji but it hasn't moved forward. I think it is my fate to take forward the work started by Atal ji
- With several development initiatives we have to take Jharkhand forward
- Together we have to change things. With several development initiatives we have to take Jharkhand forward
- If we have to take India forward no part of this country can remain behind. People in the eastern part of India are waiting for development
- Whether it is East or West, North of South, India must have balanced development
- This transmission line will play an important role in Jharkhand's development
- We cannot take India forward if we overlook what states want. Our government in Delhi wants to facilitate development in each state
- The decision taken by our government for royalties on minerals will benefit Jharkhand by Rs. 4000 crores a year and for that Hemant Soren didn't need to come to me
- Like you get water in your tap, you should be able to get gas on a pipeline - we're working towards that
- The youth here has potential - we want to prioritise manufacture of electrical goods
- We will begin work on an Indian Institute of Information Technology in Ranchi
- Even in an aadivasi-majority area like Jharkhand, mobile phones are playing such an important role
- For the common man, the government should be in his hands. You can track the government's work from your mobile phones - that is the 'Digital India' dream
- Objective of Digital India is to bring the government into the hands of every citizen
- The government is functioning well because the people have given us a clear mandate. If we hadn't gotten that mandate and lived in the uncertainty of alliance politics, I may not have been able to take the steps I'm taking
- I understand the need for stability and so do the people of Jharkhand
- Jharkhand is now 13... this is a critical age... the people here must decide how Jharkhand will be when it is 18..