Puducherry, Mar 30 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday claimed that he was seeing a huge wave in favour of the NDA in the four poll bound states and Union Territory Puducherry.
Addressing an election public meeting at the AFT grounds here in the evening, the Prime Minister said there was something special about Puducherry that keeps bringing him here again and again.
Mr Modi said just a month ago he was in Puducherry when a wide range of development schemes were inaugurated and he had addressed a mass rally. "At that time, the people of Puducherry gave great support and it was clear that in the election Puducherry will be voting for a change," he claimed.
After the announcement of elections, Mr Modi had went to poll bound Assam and West Bengal twice and on Tuesday morning he was in Kerala, Tamil Nadu in the afternoon and Puducherry in the evening. “In all four states and the UT, I am seeing a huge wave in favour of NDA”, he stated.
Mr Modi said that the has a reasonably long experience in politics and have seen many elections. But the Puducherry election 2021 is unique because the sitting chief minister was not given a ticket.
"So many years of loyalty, lifting the slippers of the leader, giving wrong translations to impress the leader, still no ticket.This clearly shows how much of a disaster this government had done," the Prime Minister alleged.
In the long list of non-performing Congress governments, over the years ,the previous Puducherry government has a special place, he claimed.
"The Delhi High command Government of Puducherry failed in all fronts, be it education, filling of medical seats, and welfare of SC ST people",he alleged.
"The MLAs belonging to the Congress party were openly talking about corruptions directly linked with the family of the chief minister. Their own manifestos were not fulfilled by the Congress government and even now the Congress is not giving a report card on its performance," he said.
The Prime Minister said each schemes of the NDA government have helped the people of Puducherry.
"About 6000 houses have been constructed under the PM’s Awaaz Yojana.8000 more are being made. Under the smart city mission Rs.2000 crore are being invested to transform infrastructure here.Rs.40 crore under the Blue revolution scheme have been sanctioned to empower fishermen .Under the PM’s Malsya Samprtha Yojana the amount stand at almost Rs.220 crores for Puducherry.This include 30 hectares of aqua culture, cold chain infrasture etc.," the PM said.
He also said that in the coming years more harbours will be setup. "Five Malsya Seva Kendras and two modern coastal fishing villages will come up here .This will fulfil your aspirations," he said adding that the track record speaks for itself and the aim is very clear ‘Sub Ka Vikas and Sub Ka Viswas."
Speaking on the occasion, former Puducherry chief minister and N R Congreess president N Rangasamy charged that Puducherry witnessed a dark rule at the hands of the the Congress DMK in the last five years. "It had failed all sections of people including the unemployed youth," he said.
Mr Rangasamy said that the government headed by V Narayanasamy had let down the people `without delivering on promises held out through manifestos and also on the floor of the Assembly`.
He said that the promise given by the Congress that one member in each family would be provided job `was an impossible assurance as it would not be practically possible to give jobs to more than three lakh families`.
He said that the former Chief Minister had not provided funds to the departments of his then ministerial colleagues to develop infrastructures including roads. "Former PWD Minister A Namassivayam had told me that Narayanasamy had not sanctioned funds for Local Administration department for development of funds", Rangasamy who is a close relative of Namassivayam said.
The same was the grievances of several of a good number of then Congress legislators and also a legislator of the DMK. "The lack of cooperation and response from Narayanasamy to his own party legislators and a legislator of alliance partner of Congress was the reason for these members to bid adieu to Congress and to step out of the alliance", Mr Rangasamy said.
The AINRC leader said he had quite often pressed the plea for grant of statehood with the Prime Minister.
Rangasamy said he had also urged the Prime Minister to sanction seventy percent of the budgetary commitments of Puducherry . "Our state is a small state and lacks sufficient sources to mobile revenue. There is every need for augmenting central grants to Puducherry", he said.
"Narendra Modi had promised me to look into the plea for statehood and assured me to do the needful when time comes", Rangasamy said.
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