Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a BJP Mega rally in Mathura on the occassion of the government's one year in power.
Mathura:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed a mega rally in Mathura to mark one year of his government.
Here are the highlights of his speech: - PM Modi begins his speech saying Bharat Mata ki Jai.
- This is the land of Braj - the land of Sri Krishna. And his message was 'karm karte raho'.
- Pandit Deen Dayal Updhyay said ' charaiveti, charaiveti, charaiveti' - keep walking tirelessly.
- After 30 years you gave a single party the mandate to run the government in Delhi.
- The day I was chosen as the leader in Parliament - I had said this government is dedicated to the poor.
- After 365 days, I wanted to acknowledge the source of that inspiration - the person who inspired us to work for the person at the lowest strata of society.
- Three thinkers have influenced Indian politics and political thought in the last 100 years - Gandhi, Lohia and Deen Dayal Upadhyay.
- And all three have a common thread in their thought - the poor people of this country, India's villages and its farmers.
- Would the plight of India have changed if the UPA were in power? PM Modi asks the crowd.
- The hope that you see all around you, how has this change come about?
- If you hadn't taken such a big decision, imagine what the plight of this country would have been.
- This 'parivartan' isn't due to Modi, it is due to you (the people of India).
- I will not be Pradhan Mantri (Prime Minister) but Pradhan Santri (prime guard)
- Have I not kept my promises...Burey din khatam hue ki nahin hue...
- They were giving away coal blocks to their cronies. Tum bhi looto..hum bhi lootenge.
- Some people are screaming because for 60 years their voices were heard in the power circles of Delhi.
- Sab logon ke acchey din aaye, par kuch logon ke burey din aaye...Dilli ke power circles mein dalalon ke liye jagah nahin hain
- I had not guaranteed 'acchey din' for those who had looted this country.
- More than 12 crore people get gas subsidy benefits directly in their bank accounts.
- The middlemen are a thing of the past and days of those who looted the treasury are over.
- It's been 60 years, more than 3 lakh farmers have committed suicide, I'm not here to discuss who's responsible for that or how many have died.
- I have pledged that the health of the land of the farmers will be tended to - soil health cards have been introduced.
- Rajiv Gandhi had said only 15 paise reaches the villages when a rupee is allocated in Delhi. We have removed the middlemen and made such arrangement that 100 paise in that rupee reaches the villages.
- Issue of farmers' suicide must not be politicized, we must look into why farmers are unhappy after 60 years of Independence.
- We're making efforts so that farmers of the nation get adequate water and electricity.
- We have taken decisions to set up, modernise fertilizer plants so that farmers get fertilizers, urea.
- We have started coating urea with neem. Earlier, urea would have been stolen for chemical factories but with neem coating they can't be used for anything else.
- And farmers get the much required nitrogen for their land by this neem-coated fertilizer.
- We have done away with the neccessity to get documents attested by government officials, MLAs.
- We have taught India to trust its citizens.
- When I came to power I learnt Rs 27,000 crores was in treasury and rotting. It was the money of the poor which had been deducted (as PF) and was unclaimed.
- Now there is a unique identity number, so whenever you quit a job, the unique ID number is transferred - and so is the money.
- Every year someone who got a pension had to prove he was alive, we used technology to put an end to that.
- We will put an end to 1300 outdated laws and this will reduce the nation's burden.
- In 12 rupees, you can't buy a shroud. In 12 rupees a year of one rupee a month, my government has offered an insurance scheme of 2 lakh rupees.
- If you had not voted for this government, I don't know where inflation would have been today.
- We have been able to control the rising prices. In the last 1 year, foreign investment has risen 8 times to 25,000 crores.
- In India there are about 6 crore small businessmen and they employ 12 crore more people.
- In the last one year, 6 lakh more foreign tourists have come to India.
- If India has to fight poverty, the youth of the nation must get employment opportunities.
- I want these small businessmen to have access to bank loans - that is why we thought of the Mudra Bank to give loans from Rs 10,000 to 10 lakhs.
- We ran the Swacch Bharat campaign, toilets for women.
- Don't our mothers and sisters deserve toilets?
- Hamara desh gareebon ko gandagi mai jeene ke liye majboor kare, aisi hamari Bharat Mata nahi ho sakti.
- Ganga and Yamuna are both my mothers. I assure you I will complete all the work that remains to be done... I need your blessings.
- If I try and go through all the decisions that this government has taken in 365 days, it will take more than 365 hours.
- I had promised that I will not take a vacation. Do you have any complaints?
- We will get rid of poverty, make our nation economically stronger, make our nation proud globally.
- Every minute we have taken new initiatives and tried to create new solutions for India.