Harish Rao disappointed with Modi’s address to the nation

He also added that only 24 lakh people in the country has agreed that their salary is more than Rs 10 lakh “whereas if we see in the big cities, we can find lakhs of people with more than income slab of Rs 10 lakh”, he said. “Sadly, development is not a priority for the rulers here”, he said.

BJP State Spokesperson Shivratan Sharma while addressing a press conference on Sunday termed the Prime Minister’s address to the Nation on the eve of New Year as historic and unprecedented.

“One party is trying to establish their son in the state for the last 15 years, but has still not understood the problem”, Modi stated mocking Rahul Gandhi.

Speaking about demonetisation, Modi rhetorically asked the crowd if they wanted to get rid of black money and corruption. Though the prime minister did not mention the SP, he said that the other party in the state was too involved in family feuds to do anything else.

Hitting back at the Prime Minister, who addressed a rally in Lucknow on Monday, Bahujan Samaj Party’s chief Mayawati said Mr. Modi’s speech was repetitive and lacklustre, and as “disappointing” as his address to the nation on December 31. “I’m a BJP supporter and I will vote for Modi ji.” he said. “But both agree on “Modi hatao”,” Modi said.

“The Centre in the last two and half years provided Rs 2.5 lakh crore to the state”.

He said the announcements will give a strong impetus towards giving housing to the poor, the neo-middle and the middle class. There are expectations in political circles that some populist schemes and freebies may be unveiled in a phased manner, some at election rallies in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh and some more in the Union Budget. But here are 5 things we would have liked to hear from the Prime Minister. “But now they are united against the note ban”.

With an eye on Dalit constituency, Modi talked at length about Bhim Rao Ambedkar and the new digital payments app BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) which he recently launched. “I don’t know why there is opposition against this name also”, he further added.

PM Modi called out to all political parties. But politics should not be played with the people.