Amit Shah
Vadnagar (Gujarat): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that despite being born in a poor family, Prime Minister Narendra Modi never harbored any negativity and transformed his poverty into compassion towards the needy and tireless work for the welfare of the people. Have done. Shah said that after becoming Prime Minister in 2014, Modi changed the lives of crores of poor people by providing them various facilities like housing, toilets, water, gas and electricity connections, medicines at affordable prices and free ration. Shah, who is on a visit to Gujarat, was addressing a gathering after inaugurating three major projects in Modi’s hometown Vadnagar in Mehsana district. These projects also include a redeveloped school, where Modi received his early education.
‘Narendra Modi converted his poverty into compassion for the needy’
The senior BJP leader said, “It is taught in psychology that a child whose childhood has been spent in poverty and deprivation is motivated by negativity. Such children also develop destructive thinking and grow up with a feeling of revenge. But, Modiji, born in a family of tea sellers, transformed his poverty into compassion towards the needy people.” Shah said, ”When that poor child led the state (Gujarat as Chief Minister) and then the country. When he took over the reins, there was never any negativity in his mind. He worked for the welfare of the poor across the country to ensure that no other child had to face the kind of poverty he faced.
Prerna Complex inaugurated
The Union Minister said that despite facing adverse circumstances in the early years of life, only a God-given and talented child can think about the welfare of the entire society without keeping any negativity in mind. The school, built in the year 1888, has now been redeveloped as “Prerna Complex”, which was inaugurated by Shah. Besides this, he also inaugurated an archaeological museum and a sports complex in Vadnagar.
The former BJP president said that Modi had given top priority to education after taking over as the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001. “Thanks to his efforts, the school dropout rate, which was 37 percent when he became chief minister, came down to just one percent in 2014,” he said. He visited every corner of the state as an RSS Pracharak (full-time volunteer) to learn about the problems faced by the people of Gujarat. After becoming the Chief Minister, he resolved all those issues one by one.
Shah enumerated PM Modi’s achievements
Shah recalled that when Modi used to talk about India’s cultural revival and cultural nationalism during his early political career, he (Shah) and other BJP workers were left wondering how it would become a reality. Shah said, “Ram Lalla was in a tent for more than 500 years. After Modi ji became the Prime Minister, our dream of a grand temple in Ayodhya came true. Similarly, after the abrogation of Article 370, Jammu and Kashmir de facto became an integral part of India.” (With language inputs)
