Manipur violence to 5-G connectivity: 10 things PM Modi said about Northeast ahead of Lok Sabha Polls 2024

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the Northeast has emerged as New India’s greatest success story in the past decade since his (BJP) government came to power at the Centre.

The Prime Minister gave an interview with and shared it on his social media handles. Here are 10 things that the Prime Minister said in the interview:

The north east region, the Prime Minister said, has been transformed into an abundant region from an abandoned region due to his government’s firm commitment to change the status quo through policies of integration.

“Today, the Northeast has emerged as New India’s greatest success story. In the last five years, the investments we made towards the development of the region are nearly four times more than the funds allocated by the Congress government or any other previous government in the past," PM Modi said in the interview.

The Prime Minister said that for decades after Independence, the north eastern states were relegated to the margins. He also accused the successive governments of giving step-motherly treatment to the people of the northeast because, he said, for them the potential electoral gains in the region were too little.

“In the last 10 years, it is visible how we have ended the Northeast’s isolation and developed it as Bharat’s gateway to the East. I have visited the nearly 70 times, which is probably more than the total number of visits made by all the Prime Ministers before me. Since 2015, Union Ministers have visited the northeast more than 680 times," the Prime Minister said.

The PM reiterated that is, was and shall always be an integral part of Bharat. Today, he said, the development works are reaching Arunachal and the Northeast like the first rays of the sun, faster than ever