PM launches 2nd leg of Ujjwala scheme in UP
LUCKNOW: In an indirect attack on various non-bharatitya Janata Party (BJP) governments in the country in the past, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said it was unfortunate that people had to wait decades for basic facilities such as hospitals, roads and electricity, as he launched the second phase of the Ujjwala cooking gas scheme in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
“We are entering 75th year of Independence and when we see the progress made in the past seven-and-a-half decades, we realise that certain conditions and situation could have been changed decades ago,” Modi said after launching Ujjwala 2.0 (Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana) and distributing LPG connections at a programme at Mahoba in the Bundelkhand region via videoconferencing.
Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Hardeep Singh Puri and state chief minister Yogi Adityanath attended the programme.
The PM, who interacted with the scheme’s five beneficiaries including one from Gorakhpur, used the occasion to highlight his government’s work on providing basic needs to the society. “Will our energy waste in fulfilling basic needs? How can a family or a society progress and realise big dreams if it has to struggle for basic needs?” he asked.
Rajendra Chaudhary, spokesperson for the Samajwadi Party, said: “Mahoba has been chosen as the venue to launch the scheme in view of 2022 assembly elections... Prime Minister Narendra Modi should not indulge in politics of betrayal. Ujjawala has not helped the poor due to high cost of cylinder.”