New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said people have immense confidence in his government after looking at his work for 10 years, as he slammed the past dispensations for considering themselves 'mai-baap' of citizens and working with vote bank in mind. Modi also said the four big 'castes' for him are poor, youth, women, and farmers, and asserted that their rise will make India develop.
He made the remarks after interacting with the 'Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra' beneficiaries via video conferencing. The Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra is being undertaken across the country with the aim of attaining saturation of flagship schemes of the government by ensuring that the benefits of these schemes reach all targeted beneficiaries in a time-bound manner, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
In his remarks after interacting with the beneficiaries, Modi said Bharat is neither going to stop nor tire as the people of the country have resolved to make the country developed. Even in various corners of the country there is such enthusiasm for the yatra and there is a reason for it, people have seen Modi, and his work, in the last 10 years and therefore, they have immense confidence in the government and its efforts.
People have also seen that period when earlier governments used to consider themselves 'mai-baap' of the people. Therefore, even after decades of independence, a big portion of the population was deprived of basic facilities, Modi said. Mai-baap is a Hindi term which loosely translates as a government having a feudal mindset.
More than half the population had lost faith in governments, he said. Modi said governments in the past used to look at political benefit and vote bank while undertaking works. Therefore, the people never used to trust the announcements of such 'mai-baap' governments. We have changed this and the government in place now considers people as a form of God and we work with 'seva bhav' not 'satta bhav'.