Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah addressed Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra in Sanand, Gujarat today. 

On this occasion, Shri Amit Shah said that the Vikist Bharat Sankalp Yatra is a journey to take a pledge that India will be fully developed when the country will complete 100 years of independence in 2047. He said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, there have been significant changes in every sector in the country in the last 10 years.

He said that the Modi government has ensured the security of the country. Home Minister said that the dream of abrogating Article 370 from Kashmir was unfulfilled since the time of Sardar Patel and Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Prime Minister Modi has worked to complete it. He said that a grand Ram temple is being built under the leadership of Modi ji. He added that during the leadership of Prime Minister Modi ji our Chandrayaan reached the moon and our tricolor was hoisted.

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation said that for the first time in 75 years after independence, the country's economy has become very strong and industrial development has been the highest. He said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has done the work of raising the standard of living of crores of poor people of the country. Shri Shah said that even here in Changodar, the Narendra Modi government has done the work of providing tap water to every house. He said that Prime Minister Modi ji has made arrangements to connect every village by road, provide electricity to every house, provide bank account to every house and give five kg of free food grains per month to every poor.

Shri Amit Shah said that in the last 75 years, the country has made a lot of progress in many fields, but all those who sacrificed for independence had fought to make India the first in the world in every field. He said that the time has now come to build the India of dreams of the martyrs who made their supreme sacrifice for the country. Shri Shah said that when India completes 100 years of independence, there should not be a single person in the country who does not have a gas cylinder, toilet, food, electricity in house; no one should be illiterate, this program is to take a resolution to help create such a developed India.

Union Home Minister said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has set the target of creating 2 crore ‘Lakhpati Didi’ in the country. He said that once this scheme successfully reaches every village of the country, then there will be true change in India. He added that by increasing the income of the poor sisters of the country, many small problems in their lives will be eliminated and a similar system has been envisioned in the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra. Shri Shah said that there is a ‘Modi guarantee’ for all the public welfare schemes run by the government. He said that the benefits of a double engine government have been seen in Gujarat in the form of the government led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at the Center and Bhupendra Patel in the state. Shri Shah said that the Narendra Modi government has built good roads and provided 24-hour electricity in Gujarat. He said the tradition of peace, development, prosperity and making the poorest of the poor self-reliant that Shri Narendra Modi ji has created in Gujarat, the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra will carry forward the same tradition.

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