Modi assures more sops and benefits in full budget after the elections

Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, which Modi claimed was the biggest scheme for farmers since independence, the government will provide a direct income support of Rs 6,000 in a year to farmers with land holding up to 2 hectares.
 
He claimed that under the Congress’ rule, only 20-30 million farmers were beneficiaries of any financial scheme or assistance, but the NDA government had expanded their reach to 120 million.
 
On income tax-related benefits announced in the interim Budget, Modi said, “The demand for income tax exemption for individuals with an annual income up to Rs 5 lakh had been pending for ages. While no previous government dared to implement it, we did so.”
 
Modi alleged that 24 big infrastructural projects worth Rs 90,000 crore in West Bengal had been stuck as the state government was not cooperating with the Centre.
 
“The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will not take up any such projects where syndicates aren’t there and they don’t stand to gain,” he alleged.

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The Prime Minister said the Mamata Banerjee-led state government had been preventing several central schemes like Ayushman Bharat, RERA and others to reach the poor as she was wary of losing her hold on the people of West Bengal.
 
Referring to the ongoing CBI investigation in several chit fund scams and BJP’s allegations on the TMC’s involvement in such cases, Modi said, “If you (Mamata Banerjee) haven’t done anything wrong, why are you afraid of the agencies probing it? Even I was grilled for nine hours in Gujarat by the CBI, but I never told the CBI to go out of the state – I respect these agencies.”
 
Earlier in the day, at a separate rally in Thakurnagar, the PM cut short his speech after a stampede-like situation broke out at the venue in which many people were injured. Later, at the Durgapur rally, Modi apologised to the people for the incident.