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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the Vande Bharat train running from Jalpaiguri in West Bengal to Guwahati in Assam. Virtually inaugurated on 29th May. This will be the first Vande Bharat train for the northeastern state of Assam. After giving the gift of Vande Bharat train, PM Modi also addressed the people through virtual medium and during this, referring to the development work being done by the BJP government, also targeted the Congress.
PM Modi said, “The last 9 years have been of unprecedented achievements for India, of building a new India. Only yesterday the country got the grand-divine modern Parliament of independent India. Parliament is connecting India to our prosperous democratic future. Today is a big day for rail connectivity of entire North East including Assam. Today three works related to connectivity of North East are happening simultaneously. Today North East is going to get its first rail connectivity. In India Vande Bharat Express is being received. Electrification work has been completed on about 150 km railway track of Assam and Meghalaya. The newly constructed Demo Memo Shed in Lumding has also been inaugurated today.”
PM Modi did not even miss to target the previous governments. He said, “To cover up their past failures, some people say that a lot of work was done in North East earlier also. These people made the people of North East wait for decades even for basic amenities. This unforgivable crime North East has suffered a huge loss. Our government has given highest priority to the welfare of the poor after coming to power. From houses for the poor to toilets for women, from water pipelines to electricity connections, from gas pipelines to AIIMS Medical From college to road, rail, waterways, port, airport, mobile connectivity, we worked with full vigor in every field.”
PM Modi further said, “Infrastructure is for everyone, equally, without discrimination. That’s why this infrastructure construction is also true social justice, true secularism in a way. The whole world is proud of the infrastructure work being done in India today.” There is a lot of discussion going on in India. Because this infrastructure makes life easy. This infrastructure creates employment opportunities. This infrastructure is the basis of rapid development. This infrastructure empowers the poor, dalits, backward, tribals, every such deprived Stalls have been set up at railway stations of North East under ‘One Station, One Product’ scheme. These are giving emphasis to ‘Vocal for Local’. This has given new market to our local artisans, artists, craftsmen, such fellows “
