After nine years in office, Union ministers held news conferences in various cities around India to showcase the major accomplishments of the Modi administration over the previous five years.
The central leaders who addressed press conferences include - Nirmala Sitharaman in Mumbai, Anurag Thakur in Ahmedabad, Meenakshi Lekhi in Bengaluru, Hardeep Singh Puri in Lucknow, Ashwani Vaishnaw in Guwahati, Bhupendra Yadav in Bhopal, Arjun Ram Meghwal in Hyderabad, Jitendra Singh in Chennai, Gajendra Singh in Patna, Mansukh Mandaviya in Kolkata, Piyush Goyal in Jaipur and Smriti Irani in Rohtak.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying his government’s nine years has brought India safe borders, world class infrastructure, and increased its global esteem.
“In the last 9 years, the Modi government has given the nation four strong pillars, which are respect, internal and external security, welfare of the underprivileged, and infrastructure development,” Yogi said addressing a press conference in Lucknow along with Hardeep Singh Puri.
Puri too highlighted the achievements of the Modi government’s nine-year tenure. He said that the work done in the period has been unprecedented.
At present, 17,42,505 houses have been sanctioned in UP under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (urban), he added.
In the national capital, Union civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said in the past nine years of Modi government, India has forged its image as a self-reliant country while focusing on the welfare of the poor.
Citing various BJP-run Centre programmes, he claimed that in nine years, the Modi administration had given cooking gas connections to 96 million households under the Ujjwala Yojna, helped 800 million people by providing them with food under the PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojna, and covered 500 million beneficiaries under the Ayushman Bharat Health Insurance Scheme.