Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Thursday for not renaming Aurangabad as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, a Maratha military king.
When the MahaYuti government was formed, we rechristened it. Maharashtra election is not just an election to elect a new government. In this election, on one side there are patriots who are believers of Sambhaji Maharaj and on the other side, there are people who praise Aurangazeb," said PM Modi while targeting the Congress and its allies during a poll rally for BJP and MahaYuti nominees.
He also appealed to the people to reelect the MahaYuti for the acceleration of his state's growth.
"Who was most hurt when Aurangabad was renamed as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar? Maharashtra knows that the demand was raised by Balasaheb Thackeray. The Aghadi government was in power for 2.5 years but they did not have the courage to do so under the Congress party's pressure. Whereas the MahaYuti government renamed the city as soon as it came to power. We fulfilled your wish, we fulfilled Balasaheb Thackeray's wish," said the Prime Minister.
This vision of Viksit Bharat has to be led by Maharashtra. The Prime Minister said this while addressing a public rally here on Monday.
"BJP and MahaYuti are working for the same Sankalp. To achieve this, modern infrastructure is being built. In this entire region, the railway is being modernised. Maharashtra has attracted maximum FDI after the formation of the MahaYuti government. The people have benefited because of the investment. In this region alone, contracts of over Rs 70,000 crore have been finalised. This will open up new opportunities for development and mobilise more jobs for the youth, said Prime Minister Modi.
Prime Minister also criticised MVA for doing "nothing" except increasing the "problems" of the state.
MVA has only exacerbated the problems of Maharashtra.". For a very long time, Marathwada is facing a water crisis but the Congress and Aghadi people never made any concrete efforts while sitting idle in all these years. In our tenure, we made concrete efforts to wage a war against the drought. It is on record that when the Devendra Fadnavis-led government was in power it had launched Jalyukt Shivar Yojana to make Marathwada drought-free but this MVA government has closed it. However, it was again revived after MahaYuti came to power," the Prime Minister said.
He alleged that the Congress party depends upon division and not development to form the government.
"Congress stops Dalits, backward classes and tribals from progressing so that they can retain power from generation to generation. That is why Congress has been against reservation from the very beginning," PM Modi alleged.
He claims the Congress once said reservations go against the nation while it itself saw reservations as against merit.
"The mentality and agenda of the Congress remained the same. They can't move beyond the fact that an OBC has been the PM in the country for the last 10 years," said PM Modi.
"The 'Prince' of Congress, therefore, only claims that his party will scrap reservations when he goes abroad. To further their agenda, Congress and Aghadi are conspiring to divide SCs, STs and OBCs into small castes," claimed the Prime Minister.
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