Jabalpur : Union Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah alleged on Saturday that the Congress made hollow promises for decades regarding poverty alleviation but the necessitous were actually defrauded and middlemen gobbled up resources.
“Prime ministers preceding Mr Narendra Modi were not from indigent families therefore they did not comprehend the pain of the poverty-stricken. In 2014 itself, Mr Modi – a tea-seller’s son – assured that his government would toil for the betterment of women, tribes, the impoverished, the backward and dalits. The Prime Minister followed up his words with action,” Mr Shah said while addressing a function for distributing cooking gas cylinders, ovens, regulators and pipes to five lakh women under the Ujjwala 2.0 Yojana.
When Mr Modi assumed the prime ministerial mantle, most gas connections were in the residences of the prosperous and the powerful while underprivileged mothers burnt dung or wood for preparing meals within huts, Mr Shah said, adding that excessive smoke inhalation affected eyesight and caused other diseases.
“Doling out funds alone cannot elevate the standard of living. The Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana facilitated opening of crores of bank accounts and eliminated the scourge of middlemen. When Mr Modi came to power; 20,000 villages had not a single power pole. He ensured supply of electricity and the next objective is illumination of as well as potable water supply to every home. By 2022, there will be dwellings for all. The Ayushman Bharat Yojana is a boon in the healthcare sector. During the novel coronavirus pandemic, free grain was distributed. In the context of Madhya Pradesh, 15 months of Congress rule (under Mr Kamal Nath) gave the populace a comparison of that party’s governance with that of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Seventeen schemes were ended by the Congress,” the Minister said.
Minister of State for Steel and Rural Development Faggansingh Kulaste and MoS for Jal Shakti and Food Processing Industries Prahalad Singh Patel were among those in attendance wheareas Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri participated via videoconferencing from the national capital.
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