New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a visit to Odisha on Tuesday. The special thing was that PM Modi recently reacted to attending Ganesh Puja at the house of CJI DY Chandrachud. Targeting the opposition parties, he said that power hungry people engaged in dividing and breaking the society are having trouble with Ganesh Puja. You must have seen that the people of Congress and its ecosystem are angry because I participated in Ganesh Puja. PM Modi said that Ganesh Utsav is not just a festival of faith for our country. Ganesh Utsav played a big role in the independence of our country. When the British were engaged in dividing the country in their hunger for power, making the country fight in the name of castes, poisoning the society, divide and rule had become their weapon, then Lokmanya Tilak awakened the soul of India through public events of Ganesh Utsav. Rising above high, low, discrimination, casteism, our religion teaches us to unite. He said that Ganesh Utsav had become a symbol of this.
Even today, when Ganesh Utsav is celebrated, everyone participates in it. There is no discrimination. The British who followed the policy of divide and rule used to hate Ganesh Utsav even at that time, even today the power hungry people who are engaged in dividing and breaking the society are having trouble with Ganesh Puja. You must have seen that the people of Congress and its ecosystem are angry because I participated in Ganesh Puja. Taking a dig at the Congress, he said that in Karnataka where they have a government, these people have committed an even bigger crime. The idol of Lord Ganesha was put behind bars. The whole country was disturbed by those pictures. This hateful thinking, the mentality of poisoning the society is very dangerous for our country, so we should not allow such hateful thinking and forces to move forward.
Together we still have to achieve many big milestones. We have to take Odisha and the country to new heights of success. Prime Minister Modi said that today is also special for another reason, today is also the 100th day of the NDA government at the Center. During this time, big decisions have been taken for the empowerment of the poor, farmers, youth and women power. In the last 100 days, it was decided that 3 crore houses will be built for the poor. In the last 100 days, a PM package of Rs 2 lakh crore was announced for the youth. The youth will benefit greatly from this. Under this, the government is going to give the first salary of the first job of the youth in private companies. It has also been decided to add 75 thousand new medical seats in the entire country including Odisha.