‘Made Honest Efforts to Build India of Gandhi, Sardar Patel’s Dream’

Rajkot: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that in the last eight years, his government made an honest attempt to build the India that Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel dreamt of, and added that it worked to protect the dignity of the poor during this period. He was addressing a gathering after inaugurating a 200-bed multi-specialty hospital in Atkot town of Gujarat’s Rajkot district, Modi said that he did not spare any effort in serving the country and did not indulge in anything that would make the people of the country hang their heads in shame. “I have spared no effort in the service to the nation in the last eight years. I have neither allowed, nor personally not done any work that will make you or even a single person of India hang their head in shame. In the last eight years, we have made an honest attempt to build the India of Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel’s dream,” he said.

“With the mantra of ‘Sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas aur sab ka prayas’ (everyone’s support, everyone’s development and everyone’s trust), we have given new direction to the development of the country,” Modi said. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the government opened the food grain stocks for the poor, he said. “As the pandemic started, people faced difficulties in getting the food supplies. So we opened up the food grain stock of the country for the poor people. We provided financial assistance into the Jan Dhan bank accounts of women during the pandemic. We opened our health services for all those who suffered,” Modi said.

“And when the vaccine came, we ensured that every Indian gets vaccinated and that too free,” Modi said. “Mahatma Gandhi wanted an India in which the poor, Dalits, adivasi and women are empowered, where cleanliness and health are part of life, where economy is based on swadeshi (local) solutions,” Modi said, adding that his government has worked for all this.