PM Modi has concluded his public meeting in Junagadh. He will address another rally in Songadh at 1.55 pm.
We brought housing scheme for the poor, built toilets for women of the country and launched the world's biggest healthcare plan (Ayushmaan Bharat) for the poor: PM Modi
Update: Meanwhile, Congress President Rahul Gandhi's roadshow in Amethi has begun. He is expected to file his nomination there shortly.
On Congress' tape recorder, the same song plays all day -- remove Modi, remove Modi! Except Modi's removal, Congress has no agenda: PM Modi
A new name has been added to Congress' corruption list -- Tughlaq Road Chunavi Ghotala: PM Modi
When Modi talks about the removal of terrorism, the Congress and its partners talk about the removal of Modi. There is no such abuse that they have not given to your son (Narendra Modi): PM Modi
Congress is looting money sent to pregnant women. It is seen in the media that stacks of notes were found with Congressmen. Congress first made Karnataka its ATM, now Madhya Pradesh has become its ATM: PM Modi
Congress only comes to power to loot money: PM Modi
I have come here to give you an account of the work done in the last five years. Aren't you proud of the work done by your son, this 'chowkidaar'? Aren't you proud that there is not a single blot of corruption?: PM Modi
PM Narendra Modi is addressing a public meeting in Junagarh, Gujarat.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi has arrived in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh to file his nomination. Earlier this month he had filed his nomination from Wayanad, Kerala.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing three election rallies today:
Congress President Rahul Gandhi will file his nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha seat today and hold a roadshow in the constituency.
Rahul Gandhi will be accompanied by his mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi for the filing of the nomination. The Congress chief will undertake a 3-km road show from Munshiganj-Darpipur to Gauriganj before filing the nomination, PTI has reported.
Just In | Income Tax raids carried out at TDP MP Jayadev Galla's offices in Guntur, News18 has reported.
Update: Chief Electoral Officer, Chhattisgarh has taken an immediate video conference meeting of collectors & SPs of the affected districts covering Phase 1 and phase 2 in Chhattisgarh, and have instructed them to take utmost precautions over the next few days, reports news agency ANI.
PM Modi calls Congress' 'Ab Hoga Nyay' an admission to 60 years of injustice
Their main slogan for this election is 'Ab Hoga Nyay'. This means that they agree that in 60 years of their rule they have done ‘anyay’ (injustice). So knowingly or unknowingly they have admitted that they have done injustice for 60 years in power,” said PM Modi in an exclusive interview with News18 Network Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi.
The prime minister further raised the cases in which justice is impending. “When they talk about ‘nyay’, what about justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots? What about ‘nyay’ for the victims of triple talaq? What about the farmers of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh who were promised loan waivers? You promised them justice in just 10 days. It has been 100 days now. When will they get justice? The victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy are asking why Congress allowed the guilty to flee the country. They are seeking justice,” asked Modi.
On LK Advani's blog: He has stated the basic principles of the BJP. These are our principles. All BJP workers say the same. The nation is supreme, the party is next and the self is last.
On the independence of Constitutional institutions: Such issues raised by the Congress are completely nonsensical. When they lose elections the Election Commission is flawed. They want the judiciary to run as per their whims and fancies. They’ll raise impeachment norms against the chief justice and then keep the issue hanging till their ends are met.
Congress is behind ruining every institution in the country. If anybody has empowered institutions it is us. These are the people who promulgated the Emergency, turned the country into a prison, jailed senior political leaders, muzzled the media and they talk about institutions? It doesn’t behove of them (to talk about institutional integrity).
On Demonetisation: First, the fact is, if we go by the earlier rate of currency entering the system, there would have been a far higher volume of currency today (if demonetisation had not happened).
Second, big people whose businesses were hit and exposed by demonetisation have still not been able to recover from the blow. But the common citizen who suffered initially due to demonetisation stood by us. The UP election was fought on the issue of demonetisation and we came out victorious.
So people who have suffered due to demonetisation – those who lost their vote bank of the poor and those who were unable to carry out their black money dealings -- they are the people who suffered and even today, they are crying.
Demonetisation is the reason why our formal economy has risen so fast. The number of people paying income tax in the 60 years since independence has doubled in the last five years.
More than 3.5 lakh companies – hundreds of them operated out of tiny rooms – all illegal outfits that ran a parallel economy, that ran hawala networks and looted the economy, were identified thanks to demonetisation and their operations were stopped.
Crores of rupees that were disclosed entered the government coffers. I believe that if we hadn’t carried out the move, the formal economy would not have been able to take off.
Views on Pandit Nehru: I have spoken from the ramparts of the Red Fort. I’m the only Indian prime minister to have said this. I have spoken in Parliament, too – that wherever the nation has reached today is due to contributions of all governments.
But our complaint is – if Sardar Patel had been the country’s first prime minister, priorities would have been different, the pace would have been different. The country would have achieved newer heights much earlier.
The work I have had to put in since 2014 to construct toilets would have been done much earlier if Sardar Patel had been the prime minister.
PM Modi has concluded his public meeting in Junagadh. He will address another rally in Songadh at 1.55 pm.
We brought housing scheme for the poor, built toilets for women of the country and launched the world's biggest healthcare plan (Ayushmaan Bharat) for the poor: PM Modi
Update: Meanwhile, Congress President Rahul Gandhi's roadshow in Amethi has begun. He is expected to file his nomination there shortly.
On Congress' tape recorder, the same song plays all day -- remove Modi, remove Modi! Except Modi's removal, Congress has no agenda: PM Modi
A new name has been added to Congress' corruption list -- Tughlaq Road Chunavi Ghotala: PM Modi
When Modi talks about the removal of terrorism, the Congress and its partners talk about the removal of Modi. There is no such abuse that they have not given to your son (Narendra Modi): PM Modi
Congress is looting money sent to pregnant women. It is seen in the media that stacks of notes were found with Congressmen. Congress first made Karnataka its ATM, now Madhya Pradesh has become its ATM: PM Modi
Congress only comes to power to loot money: PM Modi
I have come here to give you an account of the work done in the last five years. Aren't you proud of the work done by your son, this 'chowkidaar'? Aren't you proud that there is not a single blot of corruption?: PM Modi
PM Narendra Modi is addressing a public meeting in Junagarh, Gujarat.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi has arrived in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh to file his nomination. Earlier this month he had filed his nomination from Wayanad, Kerala.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing three election rallies today:
10.30 am: Junagadh, Gujarat
01.55 pm: Songadh, Gujarat
05.30 pm: Panaji, Goa
Rahul Gandhi to file nomination from Amethi today
Congress President Rahul Gandhi will file his nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha seat today and hold a roadshow in the constituency.
Rahul Gandhi will be accompanied by his mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi for the filing of the nomination. The Congress chief will undertake a 3-km road show from Munshiganj-Darpipur to Gauriganj before filing the nomination, PTI has reported.
Just In | Income Tax raids carried out at TDP MP Jayadev Galla's offices in Guntur, News18 has reported.
Update: Chief Electoral Officer, Chhattisgarh has taken an immediate video conference meeting of collectors & SPs of the affected districts covering Phase 1 and phase 2 in Chhattisgarh, and have instructed them to take utmost precautions over the next few days, reports news agency ANI.
PM Modi calls Congress' 'Ab Hoga Nyay' an admission to 60 years of injustice
Their main slogan for this election is 'Ab Hoga Nyay'. This means that they agree that in 60 years of their rule they have done ‘anyay’ (injustice). So knowingly or unknowingly they have admitted that they have done injustice for 60 years in power,” said PM Modi in an exclusive interview with News18 Network Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi.
The prime minister further raised the cases in which justice is impending. “When they talk about ‘nyay’, what about justice for the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots? What about ‘nyay’ for the victims of triple talaq? What about the farmers of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh who were promised loan waivers? You promised them justice in just 10 days. It has been 100 days now. When will they get justice? The victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy are asking why Congress allowed the guilty to flee the country. They are seeking justice,” asked Modi.
On LK Advani's blog: He has stated the basic principles of the BJP. These are our principles. All BJP workers say the same. The nation is supreme, the party is next and the self is last.
On the independence of Constitutional institutions: Such issues raised by the Congress are completely nonsensical. When they lose elections the Election Commission is flawed. They want the judiciary to run as per their whims and fancies. They’ll raise impeachment norms against the chief justice and then keep the issue hanging till their ends are met.
Congress is behind ruining every institution in the country. If anybody has empowered institutions it is us. These are the people who promulgated the Emergency, turned the country into a prison, jailed senior political leaders, muzzled the media and they talk about institutions? It doesn’t behove of them (to talk about institutional integrity).
On Demonetisation: First, the fact is, if we go by the earlier rate of currency entering the system, there would have been a far higher volume of currency today (if demonetisation had not happened).
Second, big people whose businesses were hit and exposed by demonetisation have still not been able to recover from the blow. But the common citizen who suffered initially due to demonetisation stood by us. The UP election was fought on the issue of demonetisation and we came out victorious.
So people who have suffered due to demonetisation – those who lost their vote bank of the poor and those who were unable to carry out their black money dealings -- they are the people who suffered and even today, they are crying.
Demonetisation is the reason why our formal economy has risen so fast. The number of people paying income tax in the 60 years since independence has doubled in the last five years.
More than 3.5 lakh companies – hundreds of them operated out of tiny rooms – all illegal outfits that ran a parallel economy, that ran hawala networks and looted the economy, were identified thanks to demonetisation and their operations were stopped.
Crores of rupees that were disclosed entered the government coffers. I believe that if we hadn’t carried out the move, the formal economy would not have been able to take off.
Views on Pandit Nehru: I have spoken from the ramparts of the Red Fort. I’m the only Indian prime minister to have said this. I have spoken in Parliament, too – that wherever the nation has reached today is due to contributions of all governments.
But our complaint is – if Sardar Patel had been the country’s first prime minister, priorities would have been different, the pace would have been different. The country would have achieved newer heights much earlier.
The work I have had to put in since 2014 to construct toilets would have been done much earlier if Sardar Patel had been the prime minister.