Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that his government was for the poor and whatever he did would be for the poor.
He said that his schemes were for the poor and not the ballot box. “This is a government for the poor. Whatever we do, will be for the poor. I also belong to a poor family and I was born in a house that had no windows. My mother used to cook food on firewood and there would be so much smoke that often we would not be able to see our own mother. I can completely understand that pain of mothers and their children because I have gone through it,” said Mr Modi in Ballia on Sunday while launching the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana that will provide free LPG connections to five crore women belonging to BPL families in the next three years.
He said, ‘The kitchen of the poor will no longer be filled with smoke — it will be filled with light”. The Prime Minister also pledged to ensure a better life for the poor in his regime.
I believe that schemes must be formulated for the welfare of the poor and not for the sake of the ballot box. I am not here to sound the poll bugle—that is the work of voters”, he stated.
Mr Modi said that he had visited Jharkhand a few days ago to launch schemes even though there are no elections due there. “I chose Ballia as LPG’s connections in UP are lowest in Ballia”, he said.
