Prime Minister Narendra Modis thrust on Vikas (development) brought miraculous change in the scenario of the northeast region, Union Minister Jitendra Singh today said.
Reacting on poll results of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya, he said this was a huge vindication and gratification of the focus on development in the region over the last three years.
It was an optimum combination of PM Modi's focus on Vikas, Vikas, Vikas, coupled with restructured organisational focus of BJP president Amit Shah on intermingling with the common masses and identifying with them, Minister of State in the Prime Ministers Office said.
The minister said the electoral outcomes gave him a special sense of satisfaction, also because he had been assigned to work for the development of northeast.
It is difficult to imagine how much of effort and consistent hardwork had been put in over the last three years to achieve this miraculous change of scenario in the north eastern region, he said.
Giving example of the three states, he said, till 2014 people of Meghalaya had never seen a train, but today, there is a double-gauge railway line network being set-up.
Similarly, Tripura is going to get the first-ever train to Bangladesh and the rail track from Agartala to the Bangladesh border is being funded by the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), the minister said.
At the political level, Singh described today's results as an end of the politics of appeasement, exploitation and winning elections by creating false and negative illusions about the BJP.
One of the biggest achievements of the Modi-Amit Shah leadership has been that the youth of northeast have identified their aspirations with BJP dispensation and have totally amalgamated themselves with mainstream India, politically, culturally and at all other levels, he said.
There was a time till a few years ago, when a Union minister hardly visited the northeast and if he did, it was a rare event, Singh said.
Today a roster has been put in place, wherein eight Union ministers visit northeast every fortnight, which means that there is one minister in each state in each fortnight, he said.
Not only this, the Ministry of Northeast, which was hardly visible earlier, today sets up its Camp Secretariat by rotation every month in each of the eight states, the minister said.
The Modi government has not only brought in a new era of development in the region, but it has owned up the people of the eight states so intimately that there is no longer the earlier demarcation of so called hinterland and so called main land, Singh said.
Narendra Modi was the first prime minister after 40 years who went to attend the Plenary Meeting of North Eastern Council (NEC) at Shillong, while Shah began his tenure as BJP national president with an extensive tour of the region spending at least two full days in each of the eight states, he said.
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