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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said "true secularism and social justice” means when the government ensures that the benefits of its welfare schemes reach all the needy people without any discrimination and corruption.
Launching a slew of development projects worth Rs 19,100 crore in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, Modi said that he saw some media people claim that the prime minister would sound the poll bugle for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls at the event.
Modi neither needed to sound the poll bugle earlier nor does he need it now, and will not need it in the future. People keep doing it for Modi,” he said.
The prime minister spoke in detail about his government's efforts at job generation and infrastructure building in Western Uttar Pradesh (UP), a region that was one of the centres of the anti-farm protests in 2020-21. He spoke at length on how welfare schemes have benefitted farmers and agriculture workers.
Modi also congratulated the UP government's recent decision to increase the support price for sugarcane. He remembered former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh's contribution to the service of 'Ram Kaaj' and 'Rashtra Kaaj'.
"In Ayodhya, I said 'pran pratishtha' has been completed; now it is time to take 'Rashtra pratishtha' to new heights," he said.
Noting that his government was developing Greater Noida as one of the four industrial hubs, which will be centres of investment and job generation, Modi asserted that women, the poor, farmers and youth had common aspirations and needs. The prime minister launched multiple road development projects and inaugurated Indian Oil's Tundla-Gawaria pipeline and the 'Integrated Industrial Township at Greater Noida'.
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On the occasion, Modi was presented with an idol of Lord Ram by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Earlier in the day, in a virtual address to young voters organised by the youth wing of the BJP, Modi urged them to defeat the family-run parties.
"The mindset of leaders of these parties is anti-youth. You have to defeat these family parties with the strength of your votes," he said.
He highlighted his government’s achievements such as the removal of Article 370, GST roll-out, reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and assemblies, and ending the practice of instant triple talaq among Muslims.
