“The Centre brought a scheme for providing free power connections to 1.25 lakh poor families but funds are lying here and U.P. has extended it to only 13,000 households … will it harm Akhilesh if the poor families get it? … Who is responsible? … Is this how your work is speaking?. Those who have run their government in this way do not have the right to survive [in power] for even a minute more,” the Prime Minister said.
Mr. Modi said only 14% farmers got the benefit of the Crop Insurance Scheme for farmers in U.P. “because Akhilesh does not feel it is any work … jinka kaam bolta hai, unka kisan nahi bolta ki bima mila hai [‘the farmers of those whose work speaks do not say they got insurance’],” he said.
Noting that the highest number of political killings and gang rapes take place in U.P., Mr. Modi said, “I want to ask the family-led government, are the mothers and sisters here not members of your family?”
He said 3,000 people had died when illegal arms called kattas were fired and demanded to know who made them. “Almost 50% of cases registered in the country under the Arms Act are in U.P.,” he rued.
