Dimapur (Nagaland), Feb 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stated that the BJP-led NDA authorities`s high precedence is Nagaland`s peace, progress and prosperity.
Addressing his first election rally in Nagaland`s Agri Expo Center Ground in Dimapur, the Prime Minister stated that numerous cadres of assorted militant outfits surrendered and joined the mainstream to make sure peace in Nagaland.
“The AFSPA (Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act) has already been withdrawn from many parts of Nagaland. The government has been taking steps so that AFSPA is not required in future in the state,” Modi stated.
He stated that through the previous 9 years, the violent incidents have been decreased by 75 per cent facilitating the speedy growth of the state. Saying that Nagaland`s inter-state border issues with the neighbouring states are being resolved, the Prime Minister stated that infrastructure growth to welfare of all persons are the precedence of the BJP-led NDA authorities.
Coming down closely towards the Congress, Modi stated that through the Congress regime their household welfare was first precedence and that`s why the folks of the northeast punished them by not giving votes.
“When the Congress had tried to keep the northeastern region backward, the NDA government considering the region as `Ashta Lakshmi` has been utilising its resources in a befitting manner. The Congress used the northeast as an ATM to misuse money.”
Modi stated, “The country can`t be run by distrusting its own people but by respecting them and resolving their problems. Earlier, the politics was to divide northeast, we have now transformed it into divine governance. The BJP does not deprive people on the basis of religion or region.”
During the Congress regime, there was political instability in Nagaland and the get together remote-controlled northeast from Delhi, and siphoned off cash meant for its growth, the Prime Minister stated.
Noting that Rs 400 crore instantly transferred to the farmers of Nagaland in the previous few years, the Prime Minister stated that through the Congress regime Rs 2,000 crore was given to Nagaland by the Finance Commission and now it was doubled.
The National Highway community in Nagaland has been doubled now and the state is being linked with Myanmar, the Prime Minister stated, including that street, rail and air connectivity is being developed in Nagaland and the area as properly. He stated that the BJP has chosen Nagaland`s first girl S. Phangnon Konyak as a member of the Rajya Sabha and she or he is now representing Naga tradition, custom in Parliament.
Modi stated that the Central authorities has supplied 55,000 housing items underneath the PM Awas Yojana and piped water provide has been supplied to three.50 lakh households.
Friday`s election rally was the primary and final public assembly of the Prime Minister forward of the February 27 Assembly election in Nagaland. Modi from Dimapur went to poll-bound Meghalaya, the place he would handle two election rallies. Meghalaya Assembly polls would even be held on February 27.
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