PM Modi in Gaya – Highlights of his address

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an all-out assault on the ruling coalition led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad at the Parivartan rally today in Gaya, in Bihar. Assembly elections are slated to be held in Bihar by October this year.

Here are the highlights from the address made by PM Modi in Gaya (All quotes have been sourced from Zee News):

1. I came here last during Lok Sabha elections but as compared to today, then was not even half the crowd present here today. This shows the direction in which the wind is blowing
2. Elections are approaching and people in Bihar have made two decisions – to make a new, modern Bihar and bring in change.
3. If the coming five years are spent like the last 25 years, then the future of youths will be affected.
4. I have come here to take your blessings.
5. If someone mentions non-violence, then the discussion begins from Bihar.
6. Be it Science, traditions or history, there is no subject whose discussion does not begin with Bihar.
7. Bihar has given lot to the whole country. There is no state in which does not have an IPS/IAS officer from Bihar.
8. Despite all this, Bihar is unable to develop. Who is responsible for jungle raj here?
9. Now, Delhi is with Bihar .
10. The Ganges of development has started but due to those in power in the state, it is unable to reach here.
11. The love people of Bihar has given to me I want to return it in the form of development here.
12. The alliance made now to gain politically, will it last even after polls?.
13. After MP elected BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan pulled the state out of ‘BIMARU’ tag even before the government completed 15 years, he says.
14. I assure you that in the coming years, Bihar will no longer be a ‘BIMARU’ state – PM Modi.
15. There has been so much politics that no one is concerned about developing Bodh Gaya here.
16. If we develop Bodh Gaya as a tourism spot then people will get more employment opportunities.
17. When bomb blast took place here, the world was shocked. But people concerned about vote-bank politics were not bothered at all.
18. A BJP worker was shot dead in Patna in broad daylight is an example of jungle raaj.
19. In jungle raaj part 2, the experience of being in jail has been added.
20. If someone goes to jail, then do they learn any good thing from it?.
21. JD(U) stands for ‘Janta Daman (suppression)​ Utpeedan (exploitation)’, while RJD stands for ‘Rozana Jungleraaj ka Darr’.
22. To change the fate of youths here, there is need to make changes in education sector here which NDA, BJP government can do.
23. In education, youths here do not get opportunities, he says.
24. To change the fate of youths here, there is need to make changes in education sector here which NDA, BJP government can do, Modi says.
25. Himachal Pradesh has 24,000 engineering seats, Odisha has over 1,13,000 seats, Punjab has 1,04,000 while Bihar has less than 6000
26. Jungle Raaj is responsible for it.
27. Over 4,000 crorers of Bihar money is wasted when youths from here go outside to study.
28. I urge you to vote for development and free Bihar from jungle raaj. I assure you that I will walk shoulder-to-shoulder with you.

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