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BENGALURU, MAY 7
Even as the poll predictions giving Congress a big hand or massive mandate, an undeterred Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, a day before the final day of campaigning for May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka, held a massive road show in the city, waving at a large number of enthusiastic crowd lined up on both sides of the route, despite overcast sky.
- Farmers got benefitted of about Rs 18,000 crore by way of transfer of money directly into the accounts of farmers under Prime Minister’s Kisan Samman Yojana.
- The “scared” party brought in its veteran leader Sonia Gandhi for campaigning in the Karnataka election after its “lies did not work”: PM
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Modi said that the “scared” party brought in its veteran leader Sonia Gandhi for campaigning in the Karnataka election after its “lies did not work”. Without mentioning the name of the former Congress chief, Modi said: “Now, the Congress is so afraid and scared that when their lies did not work, then those who are not taking part in campaigning are being brought here. The Congress has started dumping the responsibility of defeat on each other”.
The 8-km roadshow from Kempegowda statue at New Thippasandra Road to Trinity circle was covered in about one-and-half hours.
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The roadshow that began with Modi paying floral tributes to the statue of Kempegowda (founder of Bengaluru) passed through parts of east and central Bengaluru, touching about half-a-dozen Assembly segments, they said.
The PM was accompanied in the specially-designed vehicle by Union Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who is a Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka, and Bengaluru Central MP, P C Mohan.
Today once again, I’ve been humbled by the affection across Bengaluru. pic.twitter.com/kuZmqLAhK3
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 7, 2023
Standing on a specially designed vehicle, Modi greeted by waving at the crowd gathered on the sides of the roads and on nearby buildings, many of whom were seen chanting ‘Modi, Modi’, ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ slogans and shouting loud cheers, amid sounds of drum beat, in what appeared to be a “festive atmosphere” in several places..
People showered flower petals, as his cavalcade traversed through the stretch slowly. The Prime Minister too responded by hurling back at the crowd, flower petals accumulated on the bonnet of the vehicle.
At the Trinity circle, where the roadshow culminated, Modi repeatedly bowed with folded hands, to the large crowd gathered there, amid loud cheers.
Massive arrangements had been made along the stretch, including erecting barricades, to ensure that the roadshow went on smoothly. Tight security was put in place.
Union Government has taken on the burden of fertilisers costs going up: PM
The war between Russia and Ukraine resulted in costs of fertilisers reaching a record high in the world, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday and claimed that farmers’ of the country have been freed from the burden of bearing the cost of hike in the prices of fertilisers which would come around Rs 2 lakh crore in the country.
At an election campaign in Shivamogga in Karnataka, Modi said the burden which would have fallen on farmers but now the Union Government has taken on the burden of fertilisers costs going up.
“I did not wish to burden the farmers over the rise in prices of fertilisers going up in the market,” Modi said and stated that the country has emerged among the top 10 agricultural produce countries of the world while the agriculture exports of the country were limited under the Congress party. Under BJP, he said, imports got lessened while exports went up.
Over areca nut growers, Modi said with the import of areca nut coming down in the country, it benefitted the areca nut growers of Karnataka and now the Minimum Support Price for areca nut has gone up from Rs 100 per kg earlier to Rs 350 per kg now to help areca nut growers.
Modi stated that under his regime facilities have been made available for farmers seeds to market facilities and farmers now have access to more than 2,000 new varieties of seeds and termed “It a record” created in the last 9 years of his rule over the country.
The Prime Minister accused the Congress party’s farm loan waiver scheme benefitted only its own people and to fill-up its treasury while under him, farmers got benefitted of about Rs 18,000 crore by way of transfer of money directly into the accounts of farmers under Prime Minister’s Kisan Samman Yojana.
