NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday he visited his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on the occasion of Dev Deepawali. During his one-day visit, Prime Minister Modi inaugurated Varanasi- Prayagraj Project before participating in the Dev Deepawali festivities. You will also visit the archaeological site of Sarnath. Against the background of the farmers’ turmoil in the capital, PM also spoke about how the new farm laws will empower farmers.
Here are the main quotes from PM Modi’s address:
Here are the main quotes from PM Modi’s address:
- On this auspicious day of Dev Deepawali and Gurupurab, the people of Varanasi also receive the gift of this six-lane highway.
- In recent years, the beautification and infrastructure projects undertaken in Kashi are paying off.
- New roads, overpasses, widening of roads to reduce traffic jams, the work that is currently being done in and around Benaras has never happened since independence.
- Today, Uttar Pradesh is known as Express Pradesh. The credit goes to the work done by Yogiji and his team. Today UP is connected to highways and airports.
- This development also benefits our farmers.
- Over the years, efforts have been made to create cold storage systems along the modern roads of the villages. A rupee fund of 1 lakh crore has also been created for this.
- Due to the creation of a perishable cargo center in Varanasi, now farmers here have a great facility to store and sell fruits and vegetables easily. Due to this storage capacity, for the first time, farmers’ products here are exported in large quantities.
- A good example of how farmers are benefiting from the government’s modern infrastructure and efforts is the black rice-black rice from Chandauli. This rice is bringing prosperity to the homes of Chandauli farmers.
- The new agricultural laws empower farmers and give them more options, says Prime Minister Modi in Varansi. PM says the previous smaller farmer couldn’t get to mandi. The new farm laws not only provide more options, but also legal protection of your rights, says PM. However, some questions are likely to come up, which is democratic, but now a new trend is emerging, Modi says.
- Governments make policies, they make laws and regulations. If policies and laws are supported, then some questions are also natural. It is part of democracy and has been a living tradition in India.
- But for some time, a different trend has been observed in the country. Before it used to be that if someone didn’t like the government’s decision, they opposed it. But for some time we have seen that now the basis of the opposition is not the decision but rather apprehensions are made.
- It is criticized that the decision is good but it can happen later. Confusion spreads in society about what has not yet happened, what will never happen. The same is true in the case of agrarian reforms. These are the same people who have constantly misled farmers for decades. In other words, the fraud was also carried out on the debt.
- MSP was declared, but very little was done about MSP. The MSP was misled for years. Large packages of loan waivers were announced on behalf of farmers. But they did not reach the small and marginal farmers.
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