Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his Arunachal Pradesh visit, criticised Congress for neglecting the Northeast and imposing heavy taxes. He laid foundation stones for projects worth over Rs 5,127 crore in Itanagar, highlighting BJP’s focus on regional development, last-mile connectivity, and increased ministerial engagement.
PM Modi with Arunachal Pradesh CM. Pic/PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday was in Arunachal Pradesh to lay the foundation stone for projects worth Rs. 5,127 crores. While addressing the public on Monday, PM Modi attacked the Congress party for "ignoring the northeast region" and imposing heavy tax burdens on the people while being in power.
The Prime Minister said that the Congress-led government had ignored the Northeast, as the region does not have many parliamentary seats to contest and win.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, coming to power, paid special attention to the Northeastern states. He said that visits of multiple ministers and officers were regularly organised all over the states.
The Prime Minister, after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone for multiple development projects in Itanagar, said, "Generally, the first rays of the sun fall on Arunachal Pradesh, but years have gone by trying to get the rays of development here. I have come here before 2014 too, and stayed along with you. Nature has given Arunachal so much: the land, the people, the capability – there is so much. But the people who ran the country from Delhi ignored Arunachal. The Congress thought that Arunachal had so few people; there are only 2 Lok Sabha seats, so what attention will they give?" as cited by news agency ANI.
Criticising Congress, the Prime Minister further said that the opposition, when they were in power, had imposed high taxes on the people while also carrying out multiple scams and indulging in corruption.
While slamming the opposition, PM Modi said, "Corruption and scams were happening all over, and the Congress government kept on increasing the burden of taxes on people. That day, if you earned even 2 lakh rupees, then income tax was imposed. On daily essentials, the Congress government took more than 30 per cent tax, even on kids' toffees too. That day, I had said that I would work to increase your savings and your earnings," as cited by news agency ANI.
Highlighting how the Centre has given due attention to the region, PM Modi added how, along with the increase in budget and projects, multiple ministers have frequently visited and stayed in the Northeast, in stark contrast to Congress ministers who visited the region only a few times.
Hailing the BJP government’s involvement in the development of the Northeast, PM Modi said, "We have increased the budget for the Northeast a lot. We have made last-mile connectivity and last-mile delivery the identity of our government. We also made sure that the government will not be run from just sitting in Delhi. Now, officers and ministers have to come to the Northeast and stay overnight. During the Congress time, a minister used to come just once every two months, but now more ministers have come more than 800 times to the northeast, as per ANI.
Before his speech, the Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth over Rs 5,100 crore at Itanagar.
Soon after laying the foundation stone, PM Modi is going to visit Tripura and perform Pooja and Darshan and inaugurate development work of the 'Mata Tripura Sundari Temple Complex' at Matabari.
(With inputs from ANI)
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