Prime Minister Narendra Modi asks 'naamdar' Congress why 18,000 villages remained in darkness even decades after Independence

SINDRI (DHANBAD): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday introduced a blistering assault on those accusing him of operating for the wealthy, pronouncing people "neck-deep in vote bank politics" will have to solution if moneyed people lived within the 18,000 villages the place his government had provided power for the first time since Independence.

Repeating his 'naamdar (dynast)' barb at the Congress, he mentioned they did not know the ache of 'kaamdars (strange workers)' and were accusing him of operating for the wealthy.

"Those guided by fashion of showing devotion towards the poor by bad-mouthing the rich should answer, are there any moneyed people living in the 18,000 villages kept in darkness since Independence before our government provided electricity to them," Modi mentioned.

"I wish to question these 'naamdars' about this (why 18,000 villages lived in darkness), who does not know the pain of 'kaamdars'," he mentioned.

Those "neck-deep in vote bank politics", who had no time to spare for these 18,000 villages residing in darkness even after 60 years of Independence during their time, were accusing him of operating for the wealthy, the high minister mentioned.

Modi had previous used his "naamdar" barb it seems that focused at Congress president Rahul Gandhi during the campaign for the Karnataka meeting election.

The high minister was addressing a serve as at Sindri, about 20 km from Dhanbad the city, after inaugurating five initiatives price Rs 27,000 crore for Jharkhand.

Jharkhand Governor Draupdi Murmu, Chief Minister Raghubar Das, Union Power Minister R Ok Singh, Minister of State for Health Ashwani Choubey and Dhanbad MP P N Singh were provide at the event.

The PM mentioned that but even so electrification of those villages, the Union government has set a target to supply power connection to four crore households having no electricity through the "Saubhagya" scheme.

Out of the four crore households, 25 lakh hailed from Jharkhand, he mentioned.

Modi mentioned in addition to the Rs 27,000 crore price of initiatives, works are underway in initiatives earmarked for the state at an estimated value of Rs 80,000 crore. Fifty such works are in growth, he added.

The five initiatives which have been inaugurated nowadays by means of the high minister incorporated revival of closed Sindri urea fertiliser unit, thermal power plant with a capacity of two,400 MW at Patratu, AIIMS and an airport in Deogarh and taking fuel pipeline to families in Ranchi.

The PM recalled that it was Jan Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mookerjee who as minister at the Centre had started the Sindri urea unit.

Modi mentioned that during campaign for the 2014 parliamentary election he had urged people who in the event that they elected a BJP government at the Centre too along side Jharkhand, the "double engine" would propel development of the mineral-rich state.

"Today this double engine of Jharkhand government and one at Delhi working in the same direction is taking the state to greater heights of development," he mentioned.

Saying that in democracy, election is the yardstick to gauge people's satisfaction over efficiency of governments, Modi cited the saffron birthday party's victory in panchayat polls in Jharkhand to buttress the purpose.

Modi had flown immediately to Sindri from Santiniketan in West Bengal the place he addressed the university convocation and in addition inaugurated Bangladesh Bhawan with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

From Sindri, he flew to Ranchi to have a short lived consultation with District Magistrates of 19 "Aspirational Jharkhand districts" and Chief Minister Raghubar Das.

The high minister not too long ago introduced the "aspirational district" programme to make sure all-round development of those spaces.