Vadnagar (Gujarat)
\nAttacking the Congress on the concluding day of his two-day visit to his poll-bound home state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the UPA government had \u201chatred\u201d for development and was totally unconcerned about the welfare of the people.<\/p>\n
Modi, who once sold tea at the Vadnagar railway station, recalled his journey to Delhi from Gujarat where he was the Chief Minister for 13 years from 2001.<\/p>\n
He said he has managed to serve the nation with the blessings of Lord Shiva since 2001 despite some people \u201cspewing venom\u201d at him during these years.<\/p>\n
He was apparently referring to the attacks on him during his tenure as Gujarat Chief Minister after the riots of 2002 in the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cVadnagar has taught me to drink poison,\u201d he said, while noting that his birthplace is the land of Shiva, like Kashi (Varanasi), his Lok Sabha constituency.<\/p>\n
Hitting out at the Congress governments at the Centre right from Independence, Modi claimed that such a big country never had any \u201chealth policy\u201d which was framed for the first time only when the BJP-led NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee assumed the office in Delhi.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut unfortunately, the subsequent Congress-led UPA government had strong dislike for development, so the health policy was left to bite the dust. It was only after my government was formed that we revived a new health policy,\u201d he said while dedicating to the nation a 650-bed hospital and medical college set up by the Gujarat Government at Vadnagar in Mehsana district.<\/p>\n
It was Modi\u2019s first homecoming since becoming the Prime Minister in May 2014. He was accorded a tumultuous welcome in his native town during a road show from the helipad to the venue of his public meeting adjacent to the medical college ground.<\/p>\n
He also visited BN High School, where he had studied, and smeared sand from the premises on his forehead.<\/p>\n
Later, he went to the Hatkeshwar Mahadev temple, the ancient temple of Lord Shiva in Vadnagar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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