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PARLIAMENT
Motion of Thanks

PUBLIC WELFARE THROUGH SAVINGS •n The PM said that a WHO report states that
due to availability of tap water, the families
PM Modi said that I am talking about savings but
have saved an average of Rs 40,000 on the
earlier the headlines of newspapers used to be, scams
expenses incurred on other diseases.
worth so many lakhs. It has been 10 years and due
to no scams, the country has saved lakhs of crores •n PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana: Wherever
of rupees, which are being used in the service of the this scheme has been implemented, those
people. The purchases families are saving an average of Rs 25 to
JIBE ON SCAMS, 30 thousand on electricity in a year.
made from the Gem
TALK ON SUCCESSES
portal with transparency in
•n Farmers who have used the Soil Health
government purchases were done at a lesser cost.
Card scientifically have saved Rs 30,000 per
This saved the government Rs 1.15 lakh crore. We have
acre.
used the remaining money to build the country. The
infrastructure budget 10 years ago was Rs 1 lakh 80 •n Due to the scheme promoting LED,
thousand crore which was increased to Rs 11 lakh electricity was saved and there was more
crore. Schemes should be such that the public also light. Rs 20,000 crore has been saved by the
saves money. The people who have taken advantage country.
of the Ayushman Bharat scheme have also saved Rs
1.20 lakh crore. The families who have taken medicines
from the Jan Aushadhi Kendra have saved about Due to r2,300
Rs 30 thousand crore on medicines. UNICEF also cleanliness
estimates that the families in whose homes toilets are efforts, the crore in recent years
built have saved about Rs 70,000 in a year. government by selling scrap from
has earned government offices

FAITH IN THE CONSTITUTION... A BLUNT REPLY TO THE OPPOSITION

The PM said that along with the sections PM Modi said that there will be many places in Delhi where
in the Constitution, there is also a spirit some families have built their own museums. The work
of the Constitution and to strengthen the was done with the money of the public. What is the spirit of
Constitution, the spirit of the Constitution democracy, what is it called to live the Constitution, we built
has to be lived. I want to tell with examples the PM Sangrahalaya. We give utmost importance to the unity
that we are the people of the country and hence we built the world’s tallest Statue
RESPECT FOR
who live the Constitution. of Unity dedicated to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. For seven
DEMOCRACY
Our commitment to the decades, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh were deprived
Constitution inspires us to take strong and of the rights of the Constitution. We demolished the wall of
public welfare decisions. The PM said, during Article 370. He said that those who live with the Constitution
my tenure as Chief Minister, I prepared all in their pockets do not know what kind of troubles you forced
the speeches of the Governor on the Golden Muslim women to live in. We have worked to give rights to
Jubilee of Gujarat in the last 50 years in the Muslim daughters by abolishing triple talaq. It is the Congress
form of a book, because we understand the which had shattered the sentiments of the Constitution
spirit of the Constitution, we know how to makers immediately after independence. When there was no
live it. In the year 2014, when we came to the elected government in the country. The gentlemen who were
Centre, there was no recognized opposition sitting, amended the Constitution. They crushed the freedom
party, we decided that we will call the leader of speech, and kept roaming around the world with the tag
of the largest party. This is the nature of living of Democrat. I cannot forget those days of Emergency and
the Constitution and the spirit of democracy. perhaps those pictures are still present today. n

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