Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said while the NDA wants to make every home a “Surya ghar”, the opposition NDA bloc still wants to live at the mercy of the lantern (RJD poll symbol).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the INDI alliance partners know they will not survive the coming Lok Sabha elections and seeing their defeat, even talk against the Ram temple and Lord Ram, after keeping Ram Lalla in tents for decades.

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Addressing a public meeting in Bettiah, Bihar after launching Rs 13,000 crore development projects, he said the INDI alliance parties are irked by India honouring its heritage and culture. Bihar is watching them and the people who support their parties, he said.

Mr Modi said India is today developing because of contribution by all communities, and to keep the tempo of development, the NDA must get more than 400 seats in the coming elections. This will ensure India becomes the third largest economy in the world and people come out of poverty, and there is a pucca house for everyone and jobs for the youth.

He said migration of Bihar youth was a major problem of the State after Independence. Attacking the RJD rule in the State, he said, the migration of youth increased when the “jungle raj” came. This ruling family cared for its family members only and forgot about the common people. While Bihar’s youth migrated, only one family prospered, he said.

The Prime Minister said lands of those seeking jobs were grabbed. Should these people be forgiven for this loot, he asked. The jungle raj family in Bihar did maximum harm to the State youth. The youth lost their future in the hands of these people.

The NDA government has saved the State from this family to take it forward, he said. The NDA’s double engine government is making efforts that the youth get jobs in the state itself.

The Prime Minister said on the one side, a new India is emerging; on the other, the RJD, Congress and their INDI alliance still live in the 20th century. While the NDA government wants to make every home a Surya ghar, with a solar plant on every roof-top so that they can earn and get free power; the INDI alliance still lives at the mercy of the lantern (RJD election symbol).

He said the lantern’s rule ensured that one family’s poverty ended, and it prospered. When Modi talks about this, they abuse him, the Prime Minister said.

“The biggest issue of the INDI alliance now is that Modi does not have a family. What they want is a license to loot; should they get a license to loot? They would have asked Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur the same question about family. These people would have asked even Gandhi, JP, Lohia, and Ambedkar the same question. These were the people who did not work for their families, they gave their lives to the nation,” the Prime Minister said.

Modi is a person who left his home when he was young, he said, and did not return home. “For me the whole country is my home, that is why every Indian, every poor, young man is today saying I am Modi’s family,” the Prime Minister said

He said his only worry is to end poverty, and for this, ensure free food for the poor, free gas connections, Nal Se Jal, so that there is a bright future for the young people.

That is why medical colleges, AIIMS and IIMs are being built, he said. “I want the farmers’ income to go up; I am trying to make annadata, urja data, fertiliser producers also, making efforts to see that ethanol used as fuel brings income to them,” he said.

The government announced Rs 340 per quintal price for sugarcane. The biggest storage scheme has been launched. Thousands of storages would be built to help small farmers, he said. The PM Kisan Samman Nidhi is giving money to farmers; in Bettiah alone Rs 800 crore has been given. The family-based rulers allowed the Barauni refinery to remain closed for decades, he said.