Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu), Mar 11 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lashed out at the DMK regime on crimes against women and children in the state and said violent crimes against them have become common and that even a little girl was not spared.
Criminals roamed fearlessly, harming women under the present DMK rule in the state, he said and added that recently, everyone saw the horrible news related to a DMK member who did not spare a little girl.
“I promise that NDA will ensure that women of Tamil Nadu live without fear. We will provide good law and order. It’s criminals who will live in fear, not the people,” the Prime Minister said addressing a rally of the NDA here.
He accused the DMK of “delaying” the scheme to build houses for the rural poor because they were afraid that the people would credit the central government for it.
“We have big plans for the progress of Tamil Nadu. For example, we have made the state a part of the rare earth corridor. We have proposed the Bengaluru-Chennai and Chennai-Hyderabad bullet train project,” he said.
Pointing out that farmers of the Cauvery delta districts were the backbone of Tamil Nadu’s food security, the PM said they deserved fair prices, good facilities and modern storage infrastructure.
He assured to create grain warehouses for farmers.
Modi slammed the ruling DMK over alleged illegal sandmining, which he said was destroying the river and threatening the environment.
“Yet, those responsible for it continue to enjoy the protection of DMK… but for the NDA’s government, Tamil Nadu’s progress is extremely important,” the Prime Minister said.
Responding to Chief Minister M K Stalin’s charge that the Centre denied funds to the state, Modi said since 2014, the central government disbursed about Rs 3 lakh crore through devolution alone. This was many times more than the amount given during the earlier Congress regime, he added.
Infrastructure funding to Tamil Nadu has tripled in the last decade compared to the decade before that. The NDA government spent around Rs 57,000 crore on national highways in the state. This was more than four times the amount spent by the Congress-DMK government between 2004 and 2014, he said and added, “we have invested almost Rs 8,000 crore in building rural roads in Tamil Nadu.” PTI JSP JSP ROH
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