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PM Modi Speech : विकसित भारत के लिए 5 प्रण, भ्रष्टाचार और परिवारवाद पर चोट...लाल किले से पीएम मोदी के भाषण की 10 बड़ी बातें

स्वतंत्रता दिवस के मौके पर प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने लाल किले के प्राचीर से पंच प्राण की बात कही। पांच प्रण की बात कही ताकि 2047 में भारत विकसित देश बन सके। उन्होंने भ्रष्टाचार और परिवारवाद पर तीखा हमला बोला।.

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India Independence Day 2023: स्वतंत्रता दिवस पर प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने आगामी लोकसभा चुनाव में जीत का दावा करते हुए कहा कि अगले साल इसी लालकिले से देश की उपलब्धि और देश का गौरव गान प्रस्तुत करूंगा. जिन परियोजनाओं का शिलान्यास किया है उनका उद्घाटन भी करूंगा. पीएम मोदी ने मणिपुर मुद्दे का भी जिक्र किया और आने वाले दिनों में देश के लिए नई परियोजनाओं के बारे में भी बात की. उन्होंने यह भी कहा कि भ्रष्टाचार, परिवारवाद और तुष्टीकरण इन तीन बुराइयों से मुक्ति पाना है. पीएम मोदी ने अपने कार्यकाल के बारे में बात करते हुए 10 साल में किए कामों के पर बात की. पीएम मोदी के भाषण की सबसे खास बात यह रही कि इस साल 'मेरे प्यारे देशवासियों' की जगह 'मेरे प्यारे परिवारजन' के साथ उन्होंने देश को संबोधित किया और अगले महीने अपने जन्मदिन विश्वकर्मा जयंती पर विश्वकर्मा योजना की शुरुआत करने का एलान किया. यहां पढ़ें प्रधानमंत्री मोदी का पूरा भाषण-

• प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी  अपने संबोधन की शुरुआत में कहा, ‘‘इतना बड़ा देश, 140 करोड़ मेरे भाई-बहन, मेरे परिवारजन... आज आजादी का पर्व मना रहे हैं। मैं देश के कोटि-कोटि जनों को, देश और दुनिया में भारत को प्यार करने वाले, भारत का सम्मान करने वाले कोटि-कोटि जनों को इस महान पर्व की अनेक-अनेक शुभकामनाएं देता हूं।’’
• प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने लाल किले की प्राचीर से कहा कि देश की आजादी की जंग में जिन लोगों ने योगदान और बलिदान दिया, त्याग किया, उन सबको नमन करता हूं. पीएम मोदी ने कहा कि इस बार प्राकृतिक आपदा ने देश के अनेक हिस्सों में अकल्पनीय संकट पैदा किए हैं, जिन परिवारों ने इनका सामना किया, उनके प्रति संवेदना प्रकट करता हूं. केंद्र और राज्य सरकार मिलकर संकट से निपटेंगे, प्रगति के रास्ते पर आगे बढ़ेंगे.
• मणिपुर मुद्दे पर बात करते हुए प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने कहा कि पिछले दिनों वहां हिंसा का दौर चला, मां बेटियों के सम्मान के साथ खिलवाड़ हुआ, लेकिन अब शांति बहाल हो रही है और शांति से ही समाधान निकलेगा. पूर्वोत्तर में और हिंदुस्तान के भी कुछ अन्य भागों में... लेकिन विशेषकर मणिपुर में जो हिंसा का दौर चला... कई लोगों को अपना जीवन खोना पड़ा. पीएम मोदी ने  कहा कि राज्य और केंद्र की सरकारें मिलकर वहां समस्याओं के समाधान के लिए भरपूर प्रयास कर रही हैं और आगे भी करती रहेंगी.
• प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने कहा, 'भारत से जो प्रकाशपुंज उठा है उसमें विश्व को ज्योति नजर आ रही है. आज हमारे पास लोकतंत्र, जनसंख्या और विविधता है और यह त्रिवेणी भारत के हर सपने को साकार करने का सामर्थ्य रखती है. 'आज मेरे युवाओं ने दुनिया के पहले तीन स्टार्टअप इकोसिस्टम में भारत को स्थान दिलाया है.'
• पीएम मोदी बोले कि देश में अवसरों की कमी नहीं है, जितने अवसर की जरूरत होगी, उतने अवसर निकाले जाएंगे. भारत का सबसे बड़ा सामर्थ्य बना है विश्वास, सरकार के प्रति जन जन का विश्वास और विश्व का भारत के प्रति विश्वास.
• प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने कहा कि अमृतकाल के इस कालखंड में हम जो करेंगे, जो कदम उठाएंगे, जितना त्याग करेंगे, तपस्या करेंगे, उसका आने वाले एक हजार साल पर प्रभाव होगा. बदलते हुए विश्व को आकार देने में आज 140 करोड़ देशवासियों का सामर्थ्य नजर आ रहा है, आप निर्णायक मोड़ पर खड़े हैं. अपने संबोधन में प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने कहा कि भारत एक हजार साल की गुलामी और आने वाले एक हजार साल के भव्य भारत के बीच में पड़ाव में हम खड़े हैं. देश इस समय ऐसी संधि पर खड़ा है और इसलिए अब हमें रुकना है, दुविधा में नहीं जीना है.
• पीएम मोदी ने कहा, 'हमें खोई हुई उस विरासत का गर्व करते हुए, खोई हुई समृद्धि को प्राप्त करते हुए, हमें फिर एक बार और ये बात मानकर चलें कि हम जो भी करेंगे, जो भी कदम उठाएंगे और जो भी साधना करेंगे वो अगले एक हजार साल तक अपनी दिशा निर्धारित करने वाला है.'
• प्रधानमंत्री ने कहा, 'हमारा लक्ष्य अर्थव्यवस्था को मजबूत बनाना, लोगों को सशक्त बनाना और भारत को विकसित देश बनाना है.' जब देश आर्थिक रूप से समृद्ध होता है, तब केवल देश की तिजोरी ही नहीं भरती है बल्कि देश का सामर्थ्य भी बढ़ता है.
• पीएम मोदी ने कहा, '2014 में हम वैश्विक अर्थव्यवस्था में 10वें नंबर पर थे, आज 140 करोड़ देशवासियों का पुरूषार्थ रंग लाया और हम विश्व की 5वीं अर्थव्यवस्था बन चुके हैं, यह ऐसे ही नहीं हुआ है, हमने लीकेज बंद किया, मजबूत अर्थव्यवस्था बनाई, गरीब कल्याण के लिए ज्यादा से ज्यादा धन खर्च करने का प्रयास किया.' उन्होंने कहा कि विश्वभर में भारत की चेतना के प्रति विश्वास पैदा हुआ है, मेरी सरकार और मेरी देशवासियों का मान राष्ट्र प्रथम के वाक्य से जुड़ा है.
• प्रधानमंत्री ने कहा, 'हमें संतुलित विकास पर बल देना है, क्षेत्रीय आकांक्षाओं को पूरा करना है. कोविड महामारी के बाद एक नयी वैश्विक व्यवस्था, एक नया भू राजनीतिक समीकरण बहुत तेजी से आगे बढ़ रहा है.' उन्होंने कहा कि आज दुनिया महंगाई की समस्या से जूझ रही है, हम जब सामान बाहर से मंगाते हैं तब महंगाई भी आती है, देश में महंगाई का बोझ कम से कम हो, इस दिशा में हमारा प्रयास जारी रहेगा.
• लोकसभा चुनाव 2024 का जिक्र करते हुए प्रधानमंत्री ने कहा कि हम जिन योजनाओं का शिलान्यास करते हैं, उनका उद्घाटन भी करते हैं, इन दिनों जिन योजनाओं का शिलान्यास कर रहा हूं, उसका भी उद्घाटन करना आपने (जनता ने) हमारे लिए रख छोड़ा है. अगले साल इसी लाल किले से झंडा फहराऊंगा. उन्होंने यह भी कहा, 'स्थिर सरकार चाहिए, पूर्ण बहुमत वाली सरकार चाहिए और 30 साल के अनिश्चितता के कालखंड के बाद देश के लोगों ने एक स्थिर सरकार दी, 2014 और 2019 में एक पूर्ण बहुमत वाली, स्थिर सरकार बनाई तो मोदी में सुधार की हिम्मत आई. मैं तिरंगे को साक्षी मानकर अपने देशवासियों को 10 साल का हिसाब दे रहा हूं. हमने सहकार से समृद्धि का रास्ता अपनाया है '
• उन्होंने कहा कि जब आपने एक मजबूत सरकार फॉर्म की तो मोदी ने रिफॉर्म किया, नौकरशाही ने परफॉर्म किया और जनता जुड़ गई तो ट्रांसफॉर्म हुआ. आज झुग्गी-झोपड़ी से निकले बच्चे दुनिया में पराक्रम दिखा रहे हैं, छोटे-छोटे गांव, कस्बे के नौजवान, हमारे बेटे-बेटियां आज कमाल दिखा रहे हैं.
• प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने यह भी कहा, 'आज देश में आतंकी हमलों में कमी आई है, नक्सली घटनाएं बीती बातें हो गई हैं. यह काम करने वाली सरकार है, यह नया भारत है.. यह भारत न रुकता है, न हांफता है. यह मोदी की गारंटी है कि अगले पांच साल में भारत दुनिया की तीसरी सबसे बड़ी अर्थव्यवस्था बनेगा.'
• पीएम मोदी ने कहा कि साल 2047 में जब देश आजादी के 100 साल का जश्न मना रहा होगा तब भारत का तिरंगा विकसित भारत का तिरंगा झंडा बने. हमारी नीतियां स्पष्ट हैं, नीयत पर कोई सवालिया निशान नहीं है लेकिन मुद्दे हैं जिस पर मैं लाल किले की प्राचीर से देश की जनता से मदद और आशीर्वाद मांग रहा हूं. उन्होंने कहा कि हमें ऐसा भारत बनाना है जो राष्ट्रपिता महात्मा गांधी का था, स्वतंत्रता सेनानियों का था, वीरांगनाओं का था.
• पीएम मोदी ने कहा, 'हमारे देश में 25 साल से चर्चा हो रही थी कि नई संसद बने, लेकिन यह मोदी है... समय से पहले नई संसद बन गई, यह काम करने वाली सरकार है, निर्धारित लक्ष्यों के साथ काम करने वाली सरकार है. देश में रेल आधुनिक हो रही है तो वंदे भारत ट्रेन भी आज देश में चल रही है, गांव-गांव पक्की सड़कें बन रही हैं तो इलेक्ट्रिक बसें, मेट्रो की रचना भी आज देश में हो रही है. आज गांव-गांव तक इंटरनेट पहुंच रहा है.'
• प्रधानमंत्री मोदी ने स्वयं सहायता समूहों की सराहना करते हुए कहा कि सरकार का लक्ष्य दो करोड़ लखपति दीदी बनाने का है. उन्होंने कहा कि आयुष्मान भारत योजना के तहत हमने 70 हजार करोड़ रुपये खर्च किए हैं ताकि गरीब को दवाई मिले, उनका अच्छे से इलाज हो, हमने पशुधन को बचाने के लिए करीब 15 हजार करोड़ रुपये टीकाकरण पर लगाए हैं.
• पीएम मोदी ने कहा, 'किसान भाइयों का पुरुषार्थ है कि आज देश कृषि के क्षेत्र में आगे बढ़ रहा है हमने पीएम किसान सम्मान निधि के माध्यम से ढाई लाख करोड़ रुपये किसानों के खातों में जमा किए, हर घर में शुद्ध पानी पहुंचाने के लिए हमने जल जीवन मिशन पर 2 लाख करोड़ रुपये खर्च किए हैं.'

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On Hindi Diwas, PM Modi says the language is making 'strong identity' globally

Hindi diwas 2021: to encourage the use of hindi in daily life and highlight the contribution of writers and poets of this language, hindi diwas is celebrated on september 14 every year..

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday greeted the nation on Hindi Diwas and said that it is the result of the people's efforts that the language is "continuously making a strong identity globally". “Wishing you all a very Happy Hindi Diwas. People from different regions have played a remarkable role in making Hindi a capable language. It is the result of all your efforts that Hindi is continuously making a strong identity on the global stage,” PM Modi tweeted in Hindi.

Union home minister Amit Shah also extended his wishes on the occasion of Hindi Diwas, calling it a part of Indian culture. “Hindi has been an effective and powerful medium of national unity and identity.”

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda also wished the nation on this occasion. He tweeted, “Happy Hindi Diwas to all the countrymen. Along with being the official language of India, Hindi is also the identity of the culture and tradition of the country. Come, let us make an important contribution to the progress of the nation by using Hindi, the facilitator of national integration with all other Indian languages.”

Vice president M Venkaiah Naidu urged people to learn Indian languages and increase linguistic harmony. "On 14 September 1949, the Constituent Assembly accepted Hindi as the official language. On #HindiDay, remember the ideals and harmony of the Constituent Assembly, which gave respect to Hindi and Indian languages in the Constitution. Our languages have been the source of cultural unity of the country. Learn Indian languages, increase linguistic harmony,” he tweeted.

Greeting the nation on Hindi Diwas, defence minister Rajnath Singh said Hindi is one of the most popular languages not only in India but in the world. “Hindi as a language also acts as a bridge between the people of India. It is the responsibility of all Hindi servicemen to propagate it and make maximum use of it,” he tweeted.

To encourage the use of Hindi in daily life and highlight the contribution of writers and poets of this language, Hindi Diwas is celebrated on September 14 every year. Written in Devanagari script, Hindi was adopted as an official language by the Constituent Assembly of India in 1949.

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नरेंद्र मोदी का लोकप्रिय भाषण | Narendra Modi Speech In Hindi

Narendra Modi Speech – भारत के प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी का डिजिटल इंडिया इवेंट पर दिया गया भाषण सेन जोस, कैलिफोर्निया

शांतनू, जॉन, सत्याट, पॉल, सुंदर और वेंकटेश आपका धन्यवाद। बहुत-बहुत धन्यॉवाद!

मुझे पूरा विश्वास है कि यह पूर्व नियोजित नहीं था। लेकिन यहां स्टेुज पर आप डिजिटल अर्थव्ययवस्था में भारत-अमेरिका साझेदारी की एक बेहतरीन मिसाल देख रहे हैं।

सभी को गुड इवनिंग!

Narendra Modi Speech In Hindi – नरेंद्र मोदी का लोकप्रिय भाषण

यदि एक छत के नीचे ऐसी कोई सभा हुई है जो दुनिया को एक रूप देने का दावा कर सकती है, तो वह यह है। और मैं यहाँ भारत के सरकारी कार्यालय के बारे में बात नहीं कर रहा हूँ। कैलिफोर्निया आकर मुझे बड़ी ख़ुशी हो रही है। सूर्यास्तय देखने के लिए दुनिया में यह आखिरी और सबसे खुबसूरत स्थारनों में से एक है। परंतु इसी जगह से सबसे पहले नये-नये विचार सामने आते हैं।

बड़े सम्मा्न की बात है कि आज रात आप सभी हमारे साथ हैं। आप में से कई लोगों से मैं दिल्लीह और न्यूसयार्क में तथा फेसबुक, ट्विटर और इंस्टानग्राम पर मिल चुका हूँ। ये सब हमारी नई दुनिया के नए पड़ोसी हैं।

यदि फेसबुक कोई देश होता, तो यह तीसरा सबसे ज्यादा आबादी वाला और सबसे ज्यादा कनेक्टे्ड (जुड़ा हुआ) देश होता।

आज गूगल ने शिक्षकों को कम रौब गांठने वाला और दादा-दादी / नाना-नानी को ज्यादा आलसी बना दिया है। ट्विटर ने हर किसी को रिपोर्टर बना दिया है। ट्रैफिक लाइट जिनको सबसे बेहतर काम करने की जरूरत है, वे आज सिस्को के राउटर पर हैं।

आज जो स्टेैटस मायने रखता है वह यह नहीं है कि आप जाग रहे हैं या सो रहे हैं, बल्कि यह मायने रखता है कि आप ऑनलाइन हैं या ऑफलाइन हैं। हमारे युवाओं में मूल रूप से इस बात की चर्चा होती है कि वे एंड्रायड, आईओएस या विंडो में से किसका चयन करें।

संगठन से लेकर संचार तक, मनोरंजन से लेकर शिक्षा तक, दस्ता वेजों को छापने से लेकर उत्पाकदों के छापने तक और आज इंटरनेट तक, यह कम समय में की गई बहुत लंबी यात्रा है।

स्वकच्छ ऊर्जा से लेकर बेहतर स्वा स्य्है , देख रेख और सुरक्षित परिवहन तक, हर चीज उस काम के आस-पास टहल रही है, जिसे आप करते हैं।

अफ्रीका में, यह फोन पर पैसे भेजने में लोगों की मदद कर रही है। इसकी वजह से छोटे द्वीपीय देशों के लिए शिक्षण अब ऐडवेंचर की यात्रा नहीं रह गया है, बल्कि माउस पर आराम से क्लिक कर प्राप्त करने वाला हो गया है। भारत में दूर के पहाड़ी गाँव में रहने वाली माँ के पास अपने नवजात शिशु की सुरक्षा के लिए बेहतर विकल्प हैं। दूर के गाँव में रहने वाले बच्चों की शिक्षा तक बेहतर पहुंच है। एक छोटा किसान अपनी जमीन को लेकर ज्यादा विश्व स्त है और बेहतर बाजार मूल्यह प्राप्तक कर रहा है। समुद्र में मछली पकड़ने वाला मछुआरा अच्छेन ढंग से मछली पकड़ रहा है और सैन फ्रांसिस्को् में रहने वाला युवा पेशेवर भारत में अपनी बीमार दादी / नानी का हाल-चाल जानने के लिए रोज स्कागईप कर सकता है। बेटियों पर ध्या्न देने के लिए ”बेटी के साथ सेल्फी ’’ के लिए हरियाणा में पिता द्वारा की गई पहल अंतर्राष्ट्रीएय आंदोलन बन गई।

यह सब आप लोगों द्वारा किये जा रहे कामो की वजह से हो रहा है। पिछले साल जब से हमारी सरकार सत्ताथ में आई है, हमने सशक्तिकरण और समावेशन का एक नया युग शुरू करने के लिए नेटवर्क एवं मोबाइल फोन की ताकत का उपयोग करते हुए गरीबी को दूर करने का प्रयास किया है जैसे कुछ ही महीनों में 180 मिलियन नए बैंक खाते, गरीबों के पास सीधा लाभ पहुंचना, वित्तीय जरूरतों के लिए निधि उपलब्ध कराना, गरीबों के लिए बीमा, और वृद्धावस्था में सबके लिए पेंशन।

अंतरिक्ष प्रौद्योगिकी और इंटरनेट का उपयोग करके हम पिछले कुछ महीनों में ऐसे 170 एप्लीकेशन की पहचान करने में समर्थ हुए हैं जो शासन कार्य को बे‍हतर बनाएंगे और विकास की गति को तेज करेंगे।

जब भारत के किसी गांव का छोटा शिल्परकार न्यू यार्क में मेट्रो की सवारी के दौरान किसी ग्राहक के अपने फोन देखने के बाद उसके चेहरे पर खुशियां लाता है, जैसा कि मैंने बिस्केनक में देखा, जब किर्गिस्तान के किसी दूर के अस्पबताल में किसी हृदय रोगी का उपचार दिल्ली में बैठे डाक्टारों द्वारा किया जाता है, हम जानते हैं कि हम कुछ ऐसा निर्माण कर रहे हैं जिसने हम सभी के जीवन को मौलिक रूप से परिवर्तित कर दिया है।

जिस गति से लोग डिजिटल प्रौद्योगिकी को अपना रहे हैं वह आयु, शिक्षा, भाषा और आज की हमारी रूढ़िवादी सोच को ललकार रहा है। मैं गुजरात के दूर के हिस्सेज में अनपढ़ आदिवासी महिलाओं के समूह के साथ अपनी बैठक का उल्ले ख करना चाहता हूँ। वे एक स्थामनीय मिल्क् चिलिंग प्लांट पर मौजूद थी, जिसका मैं उद्घाटन कर रहा था। समारोह की फोटो लेने के लिए वे सेलफोन का उपयोग कर रही थी। मैंने उनसे पूछा कि इन फोटोग्राफ का वे क्या करेंगी। उत्तकर सुनकर मैं दंग रह गया। उन्होंाने कहा कि वे वापस जाकर फोटोग्राफ को कंप्यू्टर पर डाउनलोड करेंगी और प्रिंट लेंगी। जी हां, वे हमारे डिजिटल विश्वं की भाषा से परिचित थी।

महाराष्ट्र राज्या के किसानों ने कृषि पद्धतियों पर जानकारियों को साझा करने के लिए व्हाट्सऐप का एक समूह बनाया है। निर्माताओं से ज्यादा ग्राहक किसी उत्पायद के प्रयोग को परिभाषित कर रहे हैं। विश्वे उन्हीं प्राचीन मनोवेगों से संचालित हो सकता है। हम मानव संघर्ष और इसकी सफलताये लगातार देखते रहेंगे। हम मानव की कीर्ति और त्रासदी को भी देखेंगे।

परंतु इस डिजिटल युग में, हमारे पास लोगों के जीवन को ऐसे तरीकों से बदलने का अवसर है जिसकी दो दशक पहले कोई कल्प ना भी नहीं कर सकता था। यह हमें उस शताब्दीप से अलग करता है जिसे हमने अभी-अभी पीछे छोड़ा है। आज भी ऐसे लोग हो सकते हैं जो डिजिटल अर्थव्यतवस्थाब को समृद्ध, शिक्षित और संपन्नी लोगों के औजार के रूप में देखते हैं। लेकिन भारत में किसी टैक्सी् चालक या नुक्कलड़ विक्रेता से यदि पूछेंगे कि उसे अपने सेलफोन से क्यात हासिल हुआ, तो यह चर्चा समाप्त हो जाएगी। मैं प्रौद्योगिकी को सशक्तिकरण के साधन के रूप में तथा ऐसे औजार के रूप में देखता हूँ जो आशा एवं अवसर के बीच की दूरी को ख़त्म करता है। सोशल मीडिया सामाजिक बाधाओं को कम कर रहा है। यह मानव मूल्योंप की ताकत पर, न कि अस्मि‍ताओं पर लोगों को जोड़ता है।

आज नागरिक एवं लोकतंत्र प्रौद्योगिकी से सशक्तं हो रहे हैं जो कभी संविधान से अपनी ताकत प्राप्त‍ करते थे। प्रौद्योगिकी सरकारों को 24 घंटे की बजाय 24 मिनट में विशाल मात्रा में डाटा से निटपने और जवाब तैयार करने के लिए मजबूर कर रही है। जब आप सोशल मीडिया या किसी सेवा के विस्ता र की गति और व्यापकता पर विचार करते हैं, तो आपको विश्वा स करना होगा कि उन लोगों के भी जीवन को तेजी से बदलना संभव है जो लंबे समय से सिर्फ उम्मीैद के सहारे खड़े हैं। इस प्रकार दोस्तों, इस सोच से डिजिटल इंडिया का विजन तैयार हुआ।

यह बड़े पैमाने पर भारत के परिवर्तन का उपक्रम है जो संभवत: मानव इतिहास में अतुल्य है। यह न केवल भारत के सबसे कमजोर, दूर के और गरीब नागरिकों के जीवन तक पहुँचने के लिये है बल्कि उस तरीके में भी परिवर्तन करने के लिये है, जिस तरह हमारा राष्ट्र् आगे बढ़ेगा और काम करेगा। परिवर्तन करने तथा इस लक्ष्य को हासिल करने के लिये लगभग 35 साल से कम के 800 मिलियन युवाओं वाले देश के लिए इससे बढ़कर और कुछ नहीं।

हम शासन में बदलाव लाएंगे और इसे ज्यादा पारदर्शी, जवाबदेह, सुगम और सहभागी बनाएंगे। मैंने बेहतर शासन – कार्य-कुशल और कारगर शासन की नींव के रूप में ई-गवर्नेंस की बात की। अब मैं एम-गवर्नेंस या मोबाइल गवर्नेंस की बात करता हूँ। ऐसे देश में जाने का यही तरीका है जहाँ सेलफोन के उपभोक्ताी की संख्याब एक बिलियन हो तथा स्माइर्टफोन का उपयोग दोहरी इकाई की दर से बढ़ रहा हो। इसमें विकास को सही मायने में समावेशी और व्यातपक जन आंदोलन बनाने की क्षमता है। यह शासन को हर किसी की पहुंच में लाता है।

‘माईगॉव डॉट इन (MyGov.in)’ के बाद मैंने अभी-अभी नरेंद्र मोदी मोबाइल ऐप लांच किया है। ये लोगों के करीब बने रहने में मेरी मदद कर रहे हैं। मैंने उनके सुझावों और शिकायतों से काफी कुछ सीखा है। हम हर एक कार्यालय में अपने नागरिकों को ज्यादा से ज्यादा कागज के दस्ताुवेजों के बोझ से मुक्ता कराना चाहते हैं। हम कागज विहीन लेन-देन चाहते हैं। हम निजी दस्ता वेजों को स्टो्र करने के लिए हर एक नागरिक के लिए एक डिजिटल लॉकर स्थासपित करेंगे, जिनको सभी विभागों में साझा किया जा सकता है।

हमने कारोबारियों एवं नागरिकों के लिए अप्रूवल को सरल और तेज़ बनाने के लिए इबिज पोर्टल स्थाापित किया है ताकि वे अपनी ऊर्जा अपने लक्ष्योंं पर लगा सकें, न कि सरकारी प्रक्रियाओं में। हम प्रौद्योगिकी का प्रयोग विकास को गति और पैमाना प्रदान करने के लिए कर रहे हैं।

सूचना, शिक्षा, कौशल, स्वा स्य्िय देख-रेख, जीविका, वित्ती य समावेशन, लघु और ग्राम उद्योग, महिलाओं के लिए अवसर, प्राकृतिक संसाधनों का संरक्षण, स्वसच्छू ऊर्जा का वितरण-विकास मॉडल को परिवर्तित करने के लिए पूरी तरह से नई संभावनाये बनी हैं।

परंतु इन सबके लिए हमें डिजिटल अंतर को बाटना होगा और उसी तरह से डिजिटल साक्षरता को बढ़ावा देना होगा जिस तरह हम सामान्यत साक्षरता को सुनिश्चित करने का प्रयास कर रहे हैं। हमें सुनिश्चित करना होगा कि प्रौद्योगिकी सुगम और लाभकारी हो।

हम चाहते हैं कि हमारे 1.25 बिलियन नागरिक डिजिटल रूप में जुड़े हुए हों। पिछले साल पूरे भारत में ब्रॉडबैंड का हमारा प्रयोग 63 प्रतिशत तक पहुंच चुका है। हमें इसे और बढ़ाने की जरूरत है। हमने राष्ट्री य आप्टिकल फाइबर नेटवर्क का तेजी से विस्ताार करना शुरू किया है जिससे हमारे 6 लाख गाँवो तक ब्रॉडबैंड पहुंचेगा। हम सभी स्कूपलों एवं कालेजों को ब्रॉडबैंड से कनेक्टप करेंगे। आई-वेज का निर्माण भी उतना ही महत्व6पूर्ण है जितना हाइवे का निर्माण।

हम अपने सार्वजनिक वाई-फाई हॉटस्पाहट का विस्तारर कर रहे हैं। उदाहरण के लिए, हम यह सुनिश्चित करना चाहते हैं कि न केवल एयरपोर्ट के लॉज में फ्री वाई-फाई उपलब्धज हो, बल्कि हमारे रेलवे प्लेहटफार्म पर भी यह सुविधा हो। गूगल के साथ टीम बनाकर हम बहुत कम समय में 500 रेलवे स्टेटशनों पर यह सुविधा देंगे। हम गाँवों और कस्बों् में सामान्य। सेवा केंद्र स्थानपित कर रहे हैं। हम स्मार्ट शहरों का निर्माण करने के लिए भी सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी का प्रयोग करेंगे। और हम अपने गाँवो को स्मा्र्ट आर्थिक केंद्रों में परिवर्तिन करना चाहते हैं और अपने किसानों को बाजारों से बेहतर ढंग से जोड़ना चाहते हैं और मौसम के उतार-चढ़ाव के प्रति उनकी विवशता को कम करना चाहते हैं।

मेरे लिए सुविधाएं पहुँचाने का अभिप्राय यह भी है कि सामग्री स्था नीय भाषाओं में होनी चाहिए। ऐसे देश में जहां 22 आधिकारिक भाषाएं हैं, यह एक कठिन लेकिन महत्वापूर्ण कार्य है। हमारी सफलता में उत्पाददों और सेवाओं के सस्ते् होने की निर्णायक भूमिका है। इसके अनेक आयाम हैं। हम भारत में सस्तेर उत्पा दों के विनिर्माण को बढ़ावा देंगे। यह मेक इन इंडिया, डिजिटल इंडिया और डिजाइन इन इंडिया के हमारे विजन का हिस्साे है। जैसा कि हमारी अर्थव्यरवस्थाव और हमारा जीवन तार से अधिक जुड़ता जा रहा है, हम डेटा की सुरक्षा, बौद्धिक संपदा अधिकारों तथा साइबर सुरक्षा को भी सर्वाधिक महत्वन दे रहे हैं।

और मुझे पता है कि डिजिटल इंडिया के विजन को साकार करने के लिए सरकार को भी आपकी तरह सोचना शुरू करना होगा। इस प्रकार, अव संरचना के सृजन से लेकर सेवाओं तक, उत्पाुदों के विनिर्माण से लेकर मानव संसाधन विकास तक, सरकारों की सहायता से लेकर नागरिकों को समर्थ बनाने एवं डिजिटल साक्षरता के संवर्धन तक, डिजिटल इंडिया आप सभी के लिए अवसरों का एक विशाल साइबर वर्ल्ड है।

हम जिस भारत का सपना देखते हैं उसके काफी भाग का अभी निर्माण किया जाना है। इस प्रकार, अब हमारे पास इसे आकार देने का अवसर है। और हमारे पास सफल होने के लिए प्रतिभा, उद्यम और कौशल हैं। हमारे पास भारत और अमेरिका के बीच साझेदारी की भी ताकत है। ज्ञान अर्थव्यपवस्थाक का निर्माण करने के लिए भारतीयों और अमरीकियों ने साथ मिलकर काम किया है। उन्हों ने हमें प्रौद्योगिकी की विशाल क्षमता से अवगत कराया है।

आज, हम भारत-अमेरिका साझेदारी को इस शताब्दीय की परिभाषक साझेदारी के रूप में देखते हैं। यह दो प्रमुख कारकों पर टिकी है। और वो दोनों ही यहां कैलिफोर्निया में हैं। हम सभी जानते हैं कि गतिशील एशिया-प्रशांत क्षेत्र इस शताब्दी का भविष्य बनाएंगा और विश्व के दो सबसे बड़े लोकतंत्र भारत और अमेरिका इस क्षेत्र के दो छोरों पर स्थित हैं। इस क्षेत्र में शांति, स्थिरता और समृद्धि के भविष्यद को आकार देने की जिम्मे्दारी हमारे ऊपर है।

हमारा संबंध युवाओं, प्रौद्योगिकी और नवाचार की शक्ति द्वारा भी परिभाषित होता है। इनसे एक ऐसी साझेदारी बन सकती है जो हम दोनों देशों में समृद्धि लाएगी और हमें आगे बढ़ाएगी।

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nice post aapne bahut acchi post likhe ho.

Modiji ko mera pranam Main bahut Khush hu kauki unhone sabse pahle swach bharat mission par jyada jor diya

धन्यवाद ओमप्रकाश जी, प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी जी के भाषण तो सभी को अपनी तरफ आर्कषित करते ही हैं, इसके साथ ही उनके द्धारा चलाए गए अभियान भी काफी लाभप्रद साबित हो रहे हैं। वहीं मोदी जी की स्वच्छ भारत मिशन की शुरुआत भी एक सराहनीय पहल है।

narendra modi jee ke bare me vistarit post likhne ke liye dhnybad. aapne kafi achha likha hai. ve vastav me hamare desh ko nayi unchai tak le ja sakte hain.

धन्यवाद प्रकाश राज जी, ये जानकर अच्छा लगा कि आपको हमारा ये पोस्ट पसंद आया। हां सही कहा आपने प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी, हमारे देश को नई ऊंचाईयों तक पहुंचाने के लिए लगातार प्रयास कर रहे हैं इसी के साथ उनके नेतृत्व में हमारे देश में जमकर विकास भी हुआ है।

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Lok Sabha Elections: Election Commission suspends Odisha official for election interference

Election Commission has suspended Odisha chief minister special secretary DS Kutey while the security in-charge Ashish Kumar Singh has been asked to undergo medical examination on charges of interfering in ongoing elections in Odisha.

Lok Sabha Elections: Delhi CM holds a roadshow in Mohali's Zirakpur under Patiala constituency.

AAP's Balbir Singh will contest against Congress' Dharamvira Gandhi, BJP's Preneet Kaur and Akali Dal's NK Sharma. All 13 Lok Sabha seats of Punjab to go for polls in the 7th phase of the Lok Sabha elections on June 1.

Lok Sabha Elections: Names of Jamshedpur urban voters go missing from voter list

Hundreds of voters, who walked to their polling booths to exercise their franchise in urban areas under Jamshedpur Lok Sabha seat on Saturday, when they were told to return empty handed as their names were missing from the official list with the polling officers. The cases were noticed in Jamshedpur West, Jamshedpur East and parts of of Jugsalai assembly segments in city areas not in rural assembly segments -- Potka, Ghatshila and Baharagora, where few members of the family were missing from the list in polling booths where they had cast votes in 2019 and 2014 Lok Sabha and assembly polls. Many had voted in that booth for more than two or three decades.

Lok Sabha Elections: Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducts a roadshow in Kolkata.

State BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar and LoP Suvendu Adhikari also with him.

Lok Sabha Elections: TMC snatched rights of OBCs to facilitate its appeasement politics, 'vote jihad', says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticized the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal, accusing it of infringing upon the rights of Other Backward Classes (OBC) youths for the sake of appeasement politics and "vote jihad."Speaking at an election rally in Barasat, PM Modi condemned the TMC's actions following the Calcutta high court's ruling against the OBC status of several classes in the state, asserting that the party had betrayed the OBCs of West Bengal.

Lok Sabha Elections: According to EC, female turnout surpasses male turnout.

The female turnout remained at 64.95% and male turnout remained at 61.95%. Third gender turnout remained at 18.67%.

Lok Sabha Elections: EC releases final voter turnout numbers, 63.37% recorded in Phase 6

In a press release, the poll body also released absolute number of voters for Phase 6.

Lok Sabha Elections: JP Nadda addresses public meeting in Shimla.

"Last year when tragedy stuck, I came here thrice...The people who used to say this is my home...They just came to seek votes...Neither brother(Rahul Gandhi) nor sister(Priyanka Gandhi) came....A total of Rs 3200 crore was given during the tragedy...The state government is not going to run for long...I will take stock of every penny from Rs 3200 crore...PM Modi served the nation for 10 years, has he ever said that he gave homes to Muslims ?..... Has he ever said that he gave home to a particular caste ?.....They(Congress) want to take away the reservation from Dalits, tribes and backward classes and give it to minorities....PM Modi says remove the corrupt they(opposition) say save the corrupt", he said.

Lok Sabha Elections: Amit Shah addresses rally in Odisha.

"Odisha's respect, language, culture art should be respected or not?... Is it acceptable that a Tamil Babu runs Odisha from behind Naveen Babu?... A tamil becomes the CM, is that acceptable?... If it is not acceptable then you have an opportunity to vote for the BJP. Give us more than 75 seats and we will give you a chief minister that can speak Odia," he said.

Lok Sabha Elections: PM Modi attacks TMC at a rally in West Bengal.

"TMC can't tolerate truth. Whoever tries to bring out TMC's truth is targeted by the TMC. A TMC MLA said, "Hinduon ko Bhagirathi mein baha denge." Sadhus of Bengal humbly requested the TMC to rectify their mistake. But TMC started abusing the sadhus. Saints of great institutions like Ramakrishna Mission, ISKCON, Bharat Sevashram Sangha were humiliated. This is being done to appease their vote bank and further the 'Vote Jihad'," he said.

Lok Sabha Elections: PM Modi has ended rule of law in India, Rahul Gandhi reacts to 'atrocities' against Dalit family in Madhya Pradesh

In a scathing accusation against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi denounced what he described as the erosion of the 'rule of law' in India, citing the recent alleged atrocities against a Dalit family in Madhya Pradesh, a state governed by the BJP.Gandhi's remarks came in the wake of the tragic demise of Anjana Ahirwar, a member of the Dalit community in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh.

Lok Sabha Elections: Modi ki Guarantee - Jisne khaaya hai, ussey baahar nikaloonga aur jiska khaaya hai usko main lautaaoonga, PM Modi said.

"10 years back when you gave me the opportunity, I gave a guarantee to the country - na khaoonga, na khaane doonga...Now, Modi is giving one more guarantee to the country, especially to West Bengal. It is Modi ki Guarantee - Jisne khaaya hai, ussey baahar nikaloonga aur jiska khaaya hai usko main lautaaoonga," he said.

Lok Sabha Elections: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally in Barasat, West Bengal.

"Bengal was first looted by Congress and then Left. Now, TMC is looting it with both hands. Congress, CPM and TMC - all three of them are accused of West Bengal. People also know that every vote cast for CPM will land in the account of TMC. TMC and Left are two sides of the same coin. CM has even announced that she will support them in Delhi (at the Centre). So, Bengal has understood all the games being played behind the curtains," he said.

Lok Sabha elections: Today, India is on the path to becoming developed, says PM Modi

He said, "Today, India is on the path to becoming developed. The strongest pillar of this development is eastern India. In the last 10 years, the expenses made by the BJP Government in eastern India was never made in 60-70 years."

Lok Sabha elections: Everyone else is biological but Narendra Modi ji is not biological, says Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi speaks on PM Modi's 'Parmatma' statement, he says, "...Everyone else is biological but Narendra Modi ji is not biological. He has been sent by his 'parmatma' to help Ambani & Adani but 'parmatma' has not sent him to help the farmers and labourers. If 'parmatma' had sent him them he would have helped the poor and the farmers. Yeh kaise 'parmatma' hain? Yeh Narendra Modi ji wale 'parmatma hain."

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Will tear apart Agnipath scheme and throw it in dustbin, says Rahul Gandhi

Will tear apart Agnipath scheme and throw it in dustbin: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in UP's Bansgaon

India elections: INDIA bloc will end 50 pc cap on reservation, promises Rahul Gandhi

INDIA bloc will end 50 pc cap on reservation: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in UP's Bansgaon

Lok Sabha polls: INDIA bloc will protect Constitution with 'dil, jaan aur khoon', says Rahul Gandhi

INDIA bloc will protect Constitution with 'dil, jaan aur khoon (heart, life and blood)': Rahul Gandhi in UP's Bansgaon

LS elections 2024: There is INDIA bloc and Constitution on one side and those who want to finish Constitution on the other, says Rahul Gandhi

"There is INDIA bloc and Constitution on one side and those who want to finish Constitution on the other," said Rahul Gandhi in UP's Bansgaon.

Lok Sabha elections: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally in West Bengal's Barasat

He said, "First of all, I bow before Maa Kaali. With her blessings, together we faced the Cyclone (Remal). The government of India continuously monitored the cyclone, I too was in continuous touch. NDRF and other teams did good work. Central Government is providing all possible help to the State Government."

Lok Sabha elections 2024: PM Modi to visit Kanyakumari from May 30 to June 1

In the culmination of his election campaign, PM Modi will visit Kanyakumari from 30th May to 1st June In Kanyakumari, PM Modi will visit the Rock Memorial and will meditate day and night at the same place where Swami Vivekanand did meditation, at the Dhyan Mandapam from 30th May evening to 1st June evening.

India elections: Congress avoids talking about PoK because they are scared of Pakistan, says Amit Shah

"Congress avoids talking about PoK because they are scared of Pakistan," said Amit Shah.

Lok Sabha elections: BJP to return money to people cheated by chit fund companies within 18 months of forming govt in Odisha, says Amit Shah

"BJP to return money to people cheated by chit fund companies within 18 months of forming govt in Odisha," said Amit Shah in Jaipur.

LS elections: Congress and Samajwadi Party praise Pakistan, says Yogi Adityanath

"Congress and Samajwadi Party praise Pakistan. I want to tell them to go to Pakistan and see... they are unable to feed 23 crore people while in India, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, in 10 years 25 crore have crossed the poverty line and 80 crore people are getting free ration," said UP CM Yogi Adityanath in Mirzapur.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: UP CM offers prayers at Gorakhnath Temple, interacts with children

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath offered prayers at Gorakhnath Temple here on Tuesday and paid his respects at the samadhi of his late guru, Mahant Avedyanath. CM Yogi had stayed overnight at the Gorakhnath Temple on Monday following a whirlwind election tour to four Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. On Tuesday morning, the Chief Minister at first offered prayers to Lord Shiva's incarnation, Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath. The Chief Minister also exchanged pleasantries with the children who came to the temple with their parents. After some light-hearted conversation, he gently placed his hand on each child's head, blessing them to study hard and succeed in life. He also gave them chocolates. During his walk around the Gorakhnath Temple complex on Tuesday morning, CM Yogi also visited the temple's cowshed (gaushala). He called the cows by their names--Bhola, Gauri, Nandi, Shyama, and others-- and fed them bread (roti) and jaggery. Meanwhile, asserting that the 2024 Lok Sabha election is between Ram devotees and traitors, CM Yogi said on Tuesday that only a Ram devotee will rule on the throne of Delhi.

India elections 2024: 'They think they can break Punjabis like they broke Shiv Sena, NCP': Arvind Kejriwal attacks BJP in Punjab

Launching a scathing attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his remark that the Bhagwant Mann government will fall after June 4, Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal said on Tuesday that the BJP thinks as they broke Shiv Sena, NCP, they can break Punjabis too but they will fail. Addressing a rally here today, Kejriwal said, "They are running dictatorship in the entire country. Amit Shah said in Ludhiana that after June 4, our government will fall and Bhagwant Mann will not remain the CM. He is openly threatening the Punjab. They think that just as they broke Shiv Sena and NCP, they will break Punjabis too. Do not threaten Punjab, it will harm you." "They (BJP) have withheld Rs 9,000 crore of Punjab's rights. Rs 5,500 crore is from the Rural Development Fund through which roads were to be built in villages. The money from the National Health Commission was to be used to build Mohalla Clinic. This is hooliganism. Politics should happen during elections," Kejriwal added. Further, the AAP chief said that in the previous governments, traders and industries were fleeing from the state while in AAP's 2-year tenure, leaving Punjab has topped.

LS elections 2024: BJP's 9 'self-goals' will boost BJD's electoral prospect: Pandian

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's close aide and senior BJD leader VK Pandian on Tuesday claimed the opposition BJP has "committed nine self goals" during the ongoing Lok Sabha and Odisha Assembly polls thus boosting the regional party's electoral prospect. Pandian claimed that the BJP's self-goals will help the BJD and none can stop the regional party from forming the government for the sixth consecutive time. Lok Sabha and Assembly elections are being held simultaneously in Odisha. He also claimed that the BJD has so far by the end of the third phase of Assembly polls, already secured majority to form government in the state and the next and final phase of voting will be held in BJD's stronghold areas. Pandian claimed that the number one "self goal" or "mistake" of BJP was to drag Lord Jagannath's name to the political discourse and also using "abusive language" against Odisha's "most popular" and five-time chief minister Naveen Patnaik. "The people of Odisha do not appreciate these words against a respected person like Patnaik," he said.

Lok Sabha elections: Cong wants to give reservation on basis of religion: Nadda

BJP president J P Nadda on Tuesday charged that the Congress wants to give reservation on the basis of religion. At a public meeting in Kinnaur in support of BJP candidate from Mandi, Kangana Ranaut, Nadda said BR Ambedkar had advocated reservation on the basis of geographical and social conditions of a place and not on religious lines. "People of Kinnaur are granted Scheduled Tribe (ST) reservation on the basis of geographical conditions because it is a far flung area but the Congress wants to give it to Muslims" he said. Hitting out at the opposition, Nadda charged that the 'INDI alliance' is nothing but an alliance of corrupt leaders as all its leaders and allied parties are corrupt and involved in various scams. The Lok Sabha elections for four seats in Himachal Pradesh are scheduled to take place on June 1 in the seventh and final phase.

India elections 2024: People of the INDI alliance give reservation to Muslims on the basis of religion, says PM Modi

PM Modi said, "... People of the INDI alliance give reservation to Muslims on the basis of religion... I want to tell the people of INDI alliance that as long as Modi is alive, you will not be able to snatch away the reservation of Tribals, Dalits, backward classes and extremely backward classes and give it to Muslims, to those who do 'vote jihad'..."

LS elections 2024: Tribal population decreasing in Santhal Parganas due to infiltrators, says PM Modi

"Tribal population decreasing in Santhal Parganas due to infiltrators who are grabbing land, putting lives of women at risk," PM Modi said.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Love Jihad' started from Jharkhand, says PM Modi

'Love Jihad' started from Jharkhand: PM Modi in Dumka

Lok Sabha elections 2024: JMM, Congress, RJD are openly and shamelessly threatening saying Modi should be removed, says PM Modi

"JMM, Congress, RJD are openly and shamelessly threatening saying Modi should be removed. Why? Because they once again want an opportunity to do scams. JMM and Congress are looting Jharkhand in every possible way. There are so many beautiful mountains in Jharkhand, however, discussion about Jharkhand is being done over mountains of notes instead of its beautiful mountains," said PM Modi addressing an election rally in Dumka, Jharkhand.

LS elections: INDI Alliance tried hard to defeat Droupadi Murmu, a tribal, in presidential polls, says PM Modi

"INDI Alliance tried hard to defeat Droupadi Murmu, a tribal, in presidential polls," said PM Modi in Jharkhand.

Lok Sabha elections: PM Modi has ended 'rule of law', Rahul slams BJP on Dalit woman's death in MP

Hitting out at the BJP over the death of a slain Dalit youth's sister in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ended the rule of law and asserted that "we will create a system where even the weakest person will be able to raise his voice strongly against oppression". The woman, who had lodged a case last August claiming her brother, a Dalit, was beaten to death by some persons pressuring her for a compromise in a harassment case, died on Sunday after she fell from an ambulance carrying her uncle's body in Sagar. Notably, her uncle Rajendra Ahirwar was beaten to death on Saturday night by some persons over an old enmity, police sources said. In a post in Hindi on X, Gandhi said, "Narendra Modi has ended the 'rule of law'. My heart is filled with pain and anger just thinking about what the BJP leaders have done to this Dalit family in Madhya Pradesh." It is a matter of shame that under the BJP rule, the government is always found to be standing with the culprits instead of the victimised women, he said. Such incidents break the courage of every person who has no other way except to take the recourse of law to seek justice, the former Congress chief said.

India elections 2024: JMM, Congress, RJD are openly threatening, says PM Narendra Modi

Addressing a public rally in Dumka, PM Narendra Modi said, "...JMM, Congress, RJD are openly threatening. They say that Modi has to be removed and the reason why they want to remove me is so that they can get a chance to do scams again. I just want to ask you, will you allow the scams to happen? JMM and Congress are looting Jharkhand in every way..."

Lok Sabha polls 2024: After forming the government, I will build 3 crore more houses for the poor, says PM Modi

Addressing a public rally in Dumka, PM Narendra Modi said, "...A new government will be formed after June 4. After forming the government, I will build 3 crore more houses for the poor..."

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Jharkhand now known for 'mountains of cash' as JMM-Congress indulged in rampant loot, says PM Modi

"Jharkhand now known for 'mountains of cash' as JMM-Congress indulged in rampant loot," said PM Modi.

LS elections 2024: I have taken a resolution to make three crore mothers, sisters 'lakhpati didi', says PM Modi

"In the next five years, we have to take forward the work done in the last 10 years. I have taken a resolution to make three crore mothers, sisters 'lakhpati didi'," said PM Modi addressing an election rally in Dumka.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Next five years will see more development works than the last 10 years, says PM Modi

"Next five years will see more development works than the last 10 years," said PM Modi in Jharkhand's Dumka.

Lok Sabha elections: Scams were routine before 2014 as Congress indulged in loot 24x7, Modi stopped it, says PM Modi in Dumka

While addressing a public rally in Jharkhand's Dumka, PM Modi said, "Scams were routine before 2014 as Congress indulged in loot 24x7, Modi stopped it."

India elections: Constitution of India, reservation and democratic principles are in danger, says Congress' Jitu Patwari on PM Modi's comments

Madhya Pradesh Congress Chief Jitu Patwari on Tuesday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over accusing the INDIA bloc of indulging in "vote bank politics" and said that the constitution of India, reservation and democratic principles were in danger. After 75 years of independence, if all the blame goes on any governance, it is PM Modi's tenure, the congress leader said. Patwari told ANI, "The constitution of India, reservation and democratic principles are in danger. The question arises in the country of freedom of media. After 75 years of independence, if all the blame goes on any governance, it is PM Modi's tenure. The reservation in the private sector was ended by the current government. BJP leaders continuously talk about changing the basic structure of the constitution and you (PM Modi) didn't not take any action on it. It means they have the support of PM Modi." The country has understood it, that is why there is an effect of these issues in the elections and that's why PM Modi has to speak on them, he added. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Prime Minister Narendra Modi explained why reservation had become a crucial issue in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, framing his narrative as a call to safeguard the constitutional principles and the rights of marginalised communities.

Lok Sabha polls 2024: Congress' character is anti-Ram, says Yogi Adityanath

Addressing a rally in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said, "Congress' character is anti-Ram. Congress removed late Veer Bahadur Singh from the post of Chief Minister because Veer Bahadur Singh was a Ram Bhakt...Even today Congress is saying that Ram Mandir should not have been built...This election is between Ram Bhakts and Ram Traitors."

Lok Sabha elections 2024: PM Modi addresses public rally in Jharkhand's Dumka

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed a public rally in Jharkhand's Dumka.

Lok Sabha elections: Can you see your MP? He can only be seen in suit-boot meeting big businessmen at Delhi's hotels, says Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

"Can you see your MP? He can only be seen in suit-boot meeting big businessmen at Delhi's hotels. Does he come to meet you? Even PM Modi doesn't go to meet people in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi. I have been visiting Varanasi... he (PM Modi) has not visited any village, never asked people about their wellbeing. Their politics, ideology is completely different," said Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi while addressing a public rally in Hamirpur.

India elections 2024: SP leader Narad Rai meets Amit Shah, hints at joining BJP

In a setback for the Samajwadi Party, its leader and former minister Narad Rai hinted that he is all set to join the BJP and heaped praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. He also shared a photograph of his meeting with Shah in which SBSP leader Om Prakash Rajbhar was also seen. Rai, according to SBSP national spokesperson Arun Rajbhar, had met Shah in Varanasi on Monday.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Now, Pakistan gives explanations even if a cracker bursts here in the country, says UP CM Yogi Adityanath

"When we raised the issue of terrorism in Parliament during Congress' time, they used to say that terrorists are from the other side of the border and today, terrorism and naxalism have been weeded out under the leadership of Modiji. Now, Pakistan gives explanations even if a cracker bursts here in the country," said UP CM Yogi Adityanath while addressing a public gathering in Gorakhpur.

LS elections 2024: The public's mood is clear, their support is with NDA, says Bihar minister Leshi Singh

On Amit Shah's statement that 'Congress won't cross 40 seats', Bihar minister Leshi Singh said, "The public's mood is clear, their support is with NDA...Congress received the mandate of the people for 4-5 decades. They can't be separated from 'parivarwaad' and corruption."

India elections 2024: PM Modi is gone now, says RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav said, "... We will know the results soon. PM Modi is gone now. PM Modi is saying that he is not biological, he is an 'avatar'...our government will be formed on June 4."

Lok Sabha elections: Article 370 wasn't agenda of people, Kashmir voter turnout in LS polls has sent message to the world, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Article 370 was neither the agenda of the people of Kashmir nor of the country but only of "four-five families" and that it is a matter of greatest satisfaction for him that the brothers and sisters in Kashmir came forward to vote with great enthusiasm in the Lok Sabha polls. In an exclusive interview with ANI, the Prime Minister said there is a feeling of more unity with the removal of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, the feeling of belongingness is increasing and the result is visible in the elections and in the increase in tourism. "Article 370 was the agenda of only four-five families, it was neither the agenda of the people of Kashmir nor the agenda of the people of the country. For their benefit, they had built such a wall of 370 and used to say that if 370 is removed, there will be a fire...Today it has become true that after the removal of 370, there is a feeling of more unity. The feeling of belongingness is increasing among the people of Kashmir and hence its direct result is also visible in elections, tourism," he said. Modi government abrogated Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019, months after it came to office for the second successive term. The Prime Minister noted that the people in Kashmir warmly welcomed the delegates during events related to the G20 summit.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Day 17, PM yet to gather courage to accept invite for debate with Rahul Gandhi, says Jairam Ramesh

Reiterating his earlier posts, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday that 17 days have passed but the Prime Minister has not yet gathered the "courage" to accept the invitation to debate with Rahul Gandhi. In a post on X, Jairam said, "17 days have passed since Rahul Gandhi wrote a letter accepting the invitation to debate with the outgoing Prime Minister. The so-called 56-inch chest has not yet gathered the courage to accept the invitation." It is pertinent to note that the invitation was extended to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by Retired Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice Ajit P Shah, and journalist N Ram for a debate on the key election issues. On May 10, Rahul Gandhi in a letter addressed to retired judges Madan B Lokur, Ajit P Shah, and journalist N Ram, Gandhi expressed readiness to participate in the debate either himself or through Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. "It would be a positive initiative for the major parties to present their vision to the country from one platform for a healthy democracy. Congress welcomes this initiative and accepts the invitation for discussion. The country also expects the Prime Minister to take part in this dialogue," Rahul Gandhi said while accepting the invitation. Earlier, while accepting the invitation for a public debate with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha President Tejasvi Surya nominated BJYM's Vice President Abhinav Prakash.

By Sameer Yasir

Reporting from Lucknow and New Delhi in India

One recent morning, Roop Rekha Verma, an 80-year-old peace activist and former university leader, walked through a north Indian neighborhood prone to sectarian strife and parked herself near a tea shop.

From her sling bag, she pulled out a bundle of pamphlets bearing messages of religious tolerance and mutual coexistence and began handing them to passers-by.

“Talk to each other. Don’t let anyone divide you,” one read in Hindi.

Spreading those simple words is an act of bravery in today’s India.

Ms. Verma and others like her are waging a lonely battle against a tide of hatred and bigotry increasingly normalized by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his deputies have vilified the country’s minorities in a yearslong campaign that has escalated during the current national election, the small band of aging activists has built bridges and preached harmony between religious groups.

They have continued to hit the pavement even as the price for dissent and free speech has become high, trying to keep the flame alive for the nonsectarian ideal embedded in India’s constitution and in their own memories.

More than three dozen human rights defenders, poets, journalists and opposition politicians face charges, including under antiterrorism laws, for criticizing Mr. Modi’s divisive policies, according to rights groups. (The government has said little about the charges, other than repeating its line that the law takes its own course.)

The crackdown has had a chilling effect on many Indians.

“That is where the role of these civil society activists becomes more important,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, a deputy director at Human Rights Watch. “Despite a crackdown, they are refusing to cow down, leading them to hold placards, distributing fliers, to revive a message that once was taken for granted.”

The use of posters and pamphlets to raise public awareness is a time-tested practice among Indian activists. Revolutionaries fighting for independence from British colonizers employed them to drum up support and mobilize ordinary Indians. Today, village leaders use them to spread awareness about health and other government programs.

Such old-school outreach may seem quixotic in the digital age. Every day, India’s social media spaces, reaching hundreds of millions of people, are inundated with anti-Muslim vitriol promoted by the B.J.P. and its associated right-wing organizations.

During the national election that ends next week, Mr. Modi and his party have targeted Muslims directly , by name, with brazen attacks both online and in campaign speeches. (The B.J.P. rejects accusations that it discriminates against Muslims, noting that government welfare programs under its supervision assist all Indians equally.)

Those who have worked in places torn apart by sectarian violence say polarization can be combated only by going to people on the streets and making them understand its dangers. Merely showing up can help.

For Ms. Verma, the seeds of her activism were planted during her childhood, when she listened to horror stories of the sectarian violence that left hundreds of thousands dead during the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.

Later, as a university philosophy professor, she fought caste discrimination and religious divides both inside and outside the classroom. She opposed patriarchal attitudes even as slurs were thrown at her. In the early 1980s, when she noticed that the names of mothers were excluded from student admission forms, she pressed for their inclusion and won.

But more than anything else, it was the campaign to build a major Hindu temple in the town of Ayodhya in her home state of Uttar Pradesh that gave Ms. Verma’s life a new meaning.

In 1992, a Hindu mob demolished a centuries-old mosque there, claiming that the site had previously held a Hindu temple. Deadly riots followed. This past January, three decades later, the Ayodhya temple opened, inaugurated by Mr. Modi.

It was a significant victory for a Hindu nationalist movement whose maligning and marginalizing of Muslims is exactly what Ms. Verma has devoted herself to opposing.

The Hindu majority, she said, has a responsibility to protect minorities, “not become complicit in their demonization.”

While the government’s incitement of religious enmity is new in India, the sectarian divisions themselves are not. One activist, Vipin Kumar Tripathi, 76, a former physics professor at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, said he had started gathering students after classes and educating them about the dangers of “religious radicalization” in the early 1990s.

Today, Mr. Tripathi travels to different parts of India with a message of peace.

Recently, he stood in a corner of a busy train station in northeastern New Delhi. As office workers, students and laborers ran toward platforms, he handed information sheets and brochures to anyone who extended a hand.

His materials addressed some of the most provocative issues in India: the troubles in Kashmir, where the Modi government has rescinded the majority-Muslim region’s semi-autonomy ; the politics over the Ayodhya temple; and ordinary citizens’ rights to question their government.

“To respect God and to pretend to do that for votes are two different things,” read one of his handouts.

At the station, Anirudh Saxena, a tall man in his early 30s with a pencil mustache, stopped and looked Mr. Tripathi straight in the eyes.

“Sir, why are you doing this every week?” Mr. Saxena asked.

“Read this,” Mr. Tripathi told Mr. Saxena, handing him a small 10-page booklet. “This explains why we should read books and understand history instead of reading WhatsApp garbage and extracting pleasure out of someone’s pain.”

Mr. Saxena smiled, nodded his head and put the booklet in his handbag before disappearing into the crowd.

If just 10 out of a thousand people read his materials, Mr. Tripathi said, his job is done. “When truth becomes the casualty, you can only fight it on the streets,” he said.

Shabnam Hashmi, 66, another activist based in New Delhi, said she had helped distribute about four million pamphlets in the state of Gujarat after sectarian riots there in 2002. More than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims, died in the communal violence, which happened under the watch of Mr. Modi, who was the state’s top leader at the time.

During that period, she and her colleagues were harassed by right-wing activists, who threw stones at her and filed police complaints.

In 2016, months after Mr. Modi became prime minister, the government prohibited foreign funding for her organization. She has continued her street activism nonetheless.

“It is the most effective way of reaching the people directly,” she said. “What it does is, it somehow gives people courage to fight fear and keep resisting.”

“We might not be able to stop this craziness,” she added, “but that doesn’t mean we should stop fighting.”

Even before Mr. Modi’s rise, said Ms. Verma, the activist in Uttar Pradesh, governments never “showered roses” on her when she was doing things like leading marches and bringing together warring factions after flare-ups of religious violence.

Over the decades, she has been threatened with prison and bundled into police vehicles.

“But it was never so bad,” she said, as it has now become under Mr. Modi.

The space for activism may completely vanish, Ms. Verma said, as his party becomes increasingly intolerant of any scrutiny.

For now, she said, activists “are, sadly, just giving proof of our existence: that we may be demoralized, but we are still alive. Otherwise, hatred has seeped so deep it will take decades to rebuild trust.”

Sameer Yasir covers news from India and other countries in the region. He is based in New Delhi. More about Sameer Yasir

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Will Hindi belt continue to be enchanted by Hindutva despite ‘Modi fatigue’?

When the campaign began, the competition appeared to be favouring the incumbent. as it closes, the central question that has arisen is whether the north will unsettle the bjp..

The Hindi belt or the Hindi heartland is a central factor in the shaping of political power in India. In part, this is due to numerical strength — the north accounts for a massive 245 seats to the Lok Sabha and, barring Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir, the Hindi belt has 226 seats. But more than mere strength, it is important because of an underlying uniformity in its approach to socio-cultural matters and in its political behaviour. Historically, the churnings in the Hindi belt have signalled momentous political shifts.

In 1967, the entire Hindi belt registered its disenchantment with the Congress. This shook the Congress system, but more than that, it marked the beginning of a new politics both within Congress and outside it. In 1977, the Hindi belt contributed to the rout of Indira Gandhi’s party and facilitated a reconfiguration of political forces. In both these moments, the deeper churning in the Hindi belt had an undercurrent of social realignments — the unrest of intermediate and backward castes against the continued dominance of upper/forward castes. The realignment politically manifested itself as a protest against the Congress. That logic was further extended in 1989 when Congress was thrown out yet again — more decisively. At all these three points in time, the Hindi belt behaved more or less uniformly.

A fourth moment was the mid-Nineties, when in quick succession, in three elections, the BJP gained handsomely in this region. That marked the entrenchment of Hindutva politics in the Hindi belt. This was not merely a case of the BJP replacing Congress in the region; it was also a case of pre-existing socio-cultural sensibilities transforming themselves with more militant articulation and the politics of Hindutva smoothly taking over the region. The rise of the BJP in the 1990s and its resurgence in 2014 owe much to the party’s impressive performance here: The BJP won 178 seats in the Hindi belt in 2019.

Without underestimating the party’s respectable showing elsewhere, like in Gujarat, one can therefore pinpoint the Hindi belt as the BJP’s core constituency. The Ram Janmabhoomi agitation consolidated the politics of Hindutva in the Hindi belt but historically, Hindutva politics has had more traction in this belt than elsewhere even before the BJP spearheaded the Ayodhya agitation. Throughout the nationalist movement and subsequently in the post-Independence period, Congress in the Hindi belt struggled to accommodate the more articulate Hindu sensibilities that sought public expression of religious identity. The Hindu sensibility in this belt could easily be converted into a politics of Hindu assertion to be weaponised against Muslims — irrespective of the fact that in states like Rajasthan or MP, like in Gujarat, the Muslim presence is far too weak to be competitive or a challenge to the so-called Hindu ethos. Hindutva was being shaped in the region despite the weakness of the party of Hindutva, and post-1989, it converted its subterranean existence into the electoral strength of the BJP.

Thus, there is a long term link of Hindutva with region-specific Hindu sensibilities. Today, what are the possible limitations that might unsettle the BJP’s electoral hold over this region?

Three things need to be borne in mind. First, except Bihar, where the BJP had a state-level partner, the BJP’s vote share in all the remaining states in the Hindi belt was between 50 and 60-plus per cent in 2019. This translates into a huge Hindu vote since available data suggest that Muslims might not have voted for the BJP in any sizeable proportion. In other words, the Hindu consolidation that the BJP aims at has almost completely occurred in this belt. This is often understood as the strength of the BJP but it also means that the party reaches a point where it cannot further add to its support.

Secondly, the party has won nearly all the seats in many of these states. In UP, though, it still came up short — with 60-plus seats out of 80. In other states of the region, even if the BJP were to repeat its 2019 performance, that would not help the party add to its strength. Thus, for the BJP to improve on its 2019 performance, it is absolutely essential to win more seats in UP. It cannot win many more seats in Bihar given that it is again in alliance with state-level parties and thus has to share seats with them.

Thirdly, while the popularity of Modi and the attraction of Hindutva may still hold, a decade-long incumbency coupled with exaggerated promises put the BJP in a tough corner. In this decade and overall, Hindutva has offered its followers symbolic excitement mostly unrelated to life conditions — the systematic marginalisation of the imagined enemy, construction of the Ram temple and limited accommodation of backward castes. The promises of national reconstruction and material advancement as corollaries of Hindu domination have remained distant dreams. Lokniti’s pre-election survey in late March found that in this region, 60 per cent voters mentioned price rise and unemployment as issues that will determine their vote. This proportion was higher than in the south or east.

This brings us to the question: Will the Hindi belt continue to be enchanted by Hindutva despite economic issues and despite the Hindutva rhetoric reaching a crescendo? Many have commented on “Modi fatigue” but is it possible that there will also be a “Hindutva fatigue”? This is not to say that the Hindi belt will suddenly turn away from Hindutva. But the question we must ponder is: Will the voters, in spite of their love affair with Hindutva, begin to exercise agency, make assessment of factors like performance and explore alternatives?

That process, if it begins, will not be confined to any one state from the Hindi belt. As pointed out above, despite state specificities, the region tends to manifest a somewhat uniform trend. Therein lies the challenge for the BJP. If there is Hindutva fatigue, it will manifest in varying degrees, across the region. If the BJP sheds its excess weight gained since 2014 in the region, that could result in the doors of electoral competition being pushed ajar. When the campaign began, the competition appeared to be favouring the incumbent. As it closes, the central question that has arisen is whether the north, that periodically distances itself from dominant power holders, will unsettle the BJP, will begin to put it on notice or continue to latch on to the emotive appeal of Hindutva for the time being.

The writer, based in Pune , taught political science

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