Meerut (Uttar Pradesh):Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that the 2024 Lok Sabha election is not just for making a government but to make 'Viksit Bharat'. He asserted that India would become the third-largest economy, poverty to be eradicated, middle class would provide strength to the country.
Addressing his first rally in Uttar Pradesh after the announcement of the Lok Sabha election schedule, Modi lauded Meerut as a land of "revolution and revolutionaries" that gave leaders like Chaudhary Charan Singh to the nation. "Our government has already started preparations for the third term. We are making a roadmap for the coming five years. Work is going on rapidly on what major decisions we have to take in the first 100 days.
"In the last 10 years, you have seen only a trailer of development, now we have to take the country much further," he said. The prime minister said he has lived in poverty and "that is why Modi understands very well the sorrow of every poor, the pain of every poor, the suffering of every poor".