Echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s views about the Opposition parties having stalled projects during their rule, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a scathing attacks on rival parties and accused them of playing divisive and caste politics for petty political gains.
“Due to lack of willpower, the previous governments had kept several projects pending for decades and totally neglected the projects related farmers and health services,” he said.
Welcoming Modi in Mirzapur, Yogi said since independence, only 13 government medical colleges were opened in the state but since Modi government came to power, it had opened several medical colleges within four years apart from laying the foundation stones for two AIIMS and two state-of-the-art cancer hospitals.
“Now, the government has decided that there should be a medical college in every division and in this direction, a medical college and 500-bed hospital at the cost of Rs 267 crore are being opened in Mirzapur to benefits patients in Mirzpur and adjoining Sonebhadra, Chandauli and Allahabad districts,” he said.
He said that due to lack of willpower, the Bansagar Canal project, which was launched in 1978 during the regime of Morarji Desai, could not be completed during the last four decades and its cost soared from Rs 300 crore to Rs 3,500 crore. “Since the Modi government came to power, it has accelerated the speed of stuck-up projects without any bias,” he added.
Highlighting other achievements of his government during a short span, he said that the state government had started the process for recruitment of 1.62 lakh policemen and 1.35 lakh teachers maintaining full transparency.
He praised the Prime Minister for improvement and inspiring work culture. He also assailed the previous SP and BSP governments for their failure to complete Chunar bridge over
the Ganga river though the foundation stone was laid in 2007.