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Show your anger at those who joked about Vande Bharat snag: Modi
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SME Times News Bureau | 19 Feb, 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed all the people, from
politicians to common people, who had joked about the recent technical
glitch in the Vande Bharat Express on its maiden return journey, saying
they were belittling those behind the country's first indigenous
semi-high speed train.
Addressing a large gathering after laying
foundation stones and launching projects worth Rs 3,300 crore in his
parliamentary constituency Varanasi, he said such people were
humiliating hundreds of professionals, engineers and technicians who had
worked relentlessly on this project and asked whether such people
should be forgiven.
"It is very sad that people with negative
mindset are making fun of the hard work that has gone behind the
project," Modi said, asking people not to be deterred or disheartened by
the attitude of a few.
He also said that he has been receiving
letters complimenting the government for the indigenous project and
ruing the criticism by some sections.
"At the right time, at the
right place, show your anger towards such people," he said, adding that
at a time when everyone was working to make a new India, such criticism
was unfair.
Congratulating the team of engineers and technicians
of the Chennai Rail Coach factory which manufactured the Vande Bharat
Express train, he said that it is the hard work of such people and the
labourers that double gauging, electrification and laying of tracks had
doubled in the past four years.
It is this very set of people
will in future make and successfully run the bullet train in India, he
said, while also announcing that the 123-km electrification work on the
Varanasi-Prayagraj section had been completed.
Modi, who had
earlier inaugurated the Mahamana Madan Mohan Malviya Cancer Centre at
the Banaras Hindu University in presence of eminent industrialist Ratan
Tata and the Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital at Lahartara, said that now
cancer detection and its treatment will be available in Varanasi.
People
not only from Uttar Pradesh but also from Madhya Pradesh, Bihar,
Jharkhand and Chattisgarh will also benefit from the two cancer centres,
he said.
Addressing a gathering at the Sant Ravidas Temple
earlier, the Prime Minister said his government has reversed the
country's downslide and changed the attitude of 'sab chalta hai'
(anything is acceptable).
He warned people with ill-gotten money and those involved in graft that they would not be spared.
Modi
also said that he considered himself fortunate to be representing the
constituency and to have come twice to the Ravidas temple in the past
few years.
Addressing the followers of Guru Ravidas, the mystic
poet-saint of the Bhakti Movement, in Shir Govardhan, the Prime Minister
said the area will soon have a community centre, and a new route will
be created to the temple.
A 12-km road from the BHU will be beautified and a bronze statue of the seer would also be installed.
Modi
also pointed out that his government's mission of 'sabka saath sabka
vikaas' has been greatly inspired by Sant Ravidas's values and
teachings.
Soon after his arrival at the Lal Bahadur Shastri
Airport, where he was welcomed by Governor Ram Naik and Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath among others, he flagged off the world's first
diesel-to-electric converted locomotive and interacted with a group of
disabled people.
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