Modi warns of ousting Mamata using Ram card
HALDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday tore into the Mamata Banerjee government, alleging it “criminalised politics, institutionalised corruption and politicised the police”. Addressing his first public rally in the state ahead of the assembly polls, he exuded confidence about forming the next government, saying the TMC government committed “several fouls in the last 10 years and the time has come to show it the ‘Ram Card’ in the assembly elections”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday claimed an international conspiracy has been hatched to “defame” Indian tea, on a visit to Assam, a major producer of the brew.
On a second visit to election-bound state in a fortnight, he also pitched for setting up at least one medical college and a technical institution in each state that will impart education in the native language.
He was addressing a gathering after launching ‘Assam Mala’ scheme to upgrade state highways and laying the foundation for two medical colleges. The prime minister was apparently referring to Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg’s controversial ‘toolkit’, which she tweeted and then deleted, outlining ways in which people can participate in farmers protest.
Modi also spoke about his dream of imparting medical and technical education in mother tonue. “I have a daring dream of each state having at least one medical college and a technical institution imparting education in the local language,” he said, promising setting up such institutions in Assam after the Assembly elections.
The two medical college and hospitals will come up in Biswanath and Charaideo districts.
PM dedicates slew of infra projects to nation in Haldia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation several infrastructure projects in the oil and gas sector in this port town on Sunday, including the ambitious 348-km Dobhi-Durgapur natural gas pipeline built by government-owned GAIL.
Aapart from laying gas pipelines across the country under the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga Project, focus is on reducing the price of natural gas, he also inaugurated an LPG import terminal of Bharat Petroleum, besides a fourlane road overbridge at Ranichak in Haldia as part of the port connectivity highway project.
He also laid the foundation stone for the second catalytic dewaxing unit of IOC at Haldia refinery. “Gas-based economic system is India’s need and ‘One nation one gas grid’ is an important project to meet this requirement,” Modi said.