Assam: Sonowal chides governance by Congress as "dark era"
Guwahati: Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal, drew a lotus, the symbol of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as part of the BJP’s wall painting programme, at the Jyotikuchi area in Assam’s Guwahati on Sunday.
As part of the national campaign, the senior BJP leader joined enthusiastic party workers as well as the common people to draw a lotus where everyone cheered for “Ek Bar Phir Se Modi Sarkar.”
Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister Sonowal said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the country has been able to break the shackles from the dark age of inefficient, inept and corrupt misgovernance by the Congress, as the country is set to launch itself towards becoming world’s top three economies.
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He said, “People of India suffered due to Congress’s obsession to please one family at the cost of everything, as their ‘Garibi Hatao’ chants were mere optics. Due to their corrupt and inefficient governance, India could not come out of its poverty, despite being one of the most promising economies in the world."
He claimed that due to Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, the country is experiencing the true fruit of the welfare state with a "corruption-free, efficient and inclusive" government at the Centre.
"It is a moment of great joy that the Modi-led government’s efforts led to the rescue of 25 crore Indians from the abyss of poverty in the past 10 years, and this clearly shows how the Modi-led government means business as against the Congress government’s meant to please the family. This is why the whole country is saying Ek Bar Phir Se Modi Sarkar,” Union Minister Sonowal said.
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Adding further, the Union Minister said that the beautiful region of the northeast never received its due until Narendra Modi came to lead the country in 2014.
He said that for every small thing, we had to launch a protest, a movement to lodge our demand for our rightful way of existence.
“For most of the time, we were denied what is rightfully our region’s right to grow and develop. Prime Minister Modi brought about a meaningful change as he brought the focus on the northeast with an agenda for development and growth", he claimed.
"I can say that wherever the lotus bloomed, there was and is peace and prosperity. Due to the arrogance, ignorance or simply supercilious attitude of the Congress towards the northeast, we, the people of the region, suffered for decades. Countless young people died,” the Union Minister added.
Union Minister Sonowal said that since 2014, Prime Minister Modi has travelled to the northeast more than 60 times, the most by any Prime Minister.
He said that almost 900 trips were made by his members of the Council of Ministers to the northeast, which helped the region to gain approval as a destination of promise, peace and prosperity.
“Today, the northeast is propelling the growth engine of the country, a thought that never crossed the minds of Congress. Those minds were and, still are, too busy with appeasing that one dynasty, one family", he said.