'Congress Hates Even Ganpati Puja...': PM Takes Dig at Opposition in Wardha | Top Quotes

Mumbai: .Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, September 20, attended an event in Wardha marking the trust anniversary of the 'PM Vishwakarma' scheme. The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of a textile par that will soon come up in Amravati. During this event which was held at around noon, the PM also released certificates and loans to the beneficiaries of this scheme, an official release stated.

The Prime Minister was accompanied by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde , Dy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar . PM Modi also launched the “Acharya Chanakya Skill Development Center” scheme of the Government of Maharashtra and "Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Women Startup Scheme."

Here are the Top Quotes from PM's Speech in Wardha:

On this day in 1932, Mahatma Gandhi had started a campaign against untouchability. This celebration of the completion of one year of Vishwakarma Yojana will give new energy to our resolutions of developed India... I congratulate all the people associated with Vishwakarma Yojana, all the beneficiaries across the country on this occasion. Today the foundation stone of PM Mitra Park has also been laid in Amravati. Today's India is working to take its textile industry to the top in the global market. The country's goal is to reinstate the thousands of years old glory of India's textile sector."

"Vishwakarma not just a govt programme but a roadmap to utilise India''s thousands of years old skills to develop country..."

"...So far, modern equipment has also been provided to more than 6.5 lakh Vishwakarma Bandhus. This has improved the quality of their products. Their productivity has increased. Not only this, every beneficiary is being given an e-voucher of Rs 15,000. A loan of up to Rs 3 lakh without guarantee is also being provided to expand their business. I am happy that within 1 year, Vishwakarma brothers and sisters have been given a loan of Rs 1400 crore. That means Vishwakarma Yojana is taking care of every aspect. That is why it is so successful and becoming popular."

"... Congress and its friends deliberately did not let the SC, ST and OBC people move forward. We have eliminated this anti-Dalit and anti-backward thinking of Congress from the government system. The figures of the last one year show that SC, ST and OBC communities are taking advantage of the Vishwakarma Yojana..."

"...For decades in Maharashtra , the Congress and later the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, instead of making cotton the strength of the farmers of Maharashtra , pushed them into misery, did politics in the name of farmers and kept indulging in corruption... When Devendra Fadnavis 's government was formed in 2014, the work of textile park started in Amravati..."

"...Today's Congress hates even Ganpati Puja. In the freedom struggle, under the leadership of Lokmanya Tilak, Ganpati Utsav became the festival of India's unity. People from every society, every class come together in Ganesh Utsav. That is why the Congress party hates Ganpati Puja too. When I went to the Ganesh Puja program, the ghost of appeasement of Congress woke up. Congress started opposing Ganpati Puja. Congress is doing anything for appeasement. You have seen that in Karnataka, the Congress government put Ganpati Bappa behind bars. The idol of Ganpati which people were worshipping was imprisoned in a police van. The whole country is angry after seeing this insult of Ganpati. I am surprised that even the allies of Congress are silent on this issue. They are so influenced by the company of Congress that they do not have the courage to protest even against the insult of Ganpati. We have to unite and answer these sins of Congress..."