I am your ‘Sevak’….It’s my responsibility to work for you: Modi

TIL Desk/National/Kushinagar (UP)/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the SP government in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh for being “unconcerned” to the hardships of the people and asked if its family feud was over to allow it to concentrate on implementing central schemes for farmers. Modi criticised the Akhilesh Yadav government for not implementing the schemes to benefit farmers though the Centre was paying for them.

“I want to ask UP government if you have settled your dispute, implement crop insurance scheme in UP. I don’t think they (UP government) can do that… They don’t have interest in solving problems,” he said at BJP’s ‘Parivartan Yatra’ rally here. He was apparently referring to the crisis within the Yadav family that pitted Akhilesh against his father Mulayam and uncle Shivpal months ahead of the UP elections.

Modi said had previous governments thought of changing lives in villages, farmers and poor would not have been facing problems as he tried to strike an emotional chord with farmers by beginning his speech in Bhojpuri and devoted a considerable part of his speech to problems of cane growers.

“The time has gone when those in government called themselves rulers. I am your ‘sewak’ (I am at your service)… It’s my responsibility to work for you. You have given me a lot. I am indebted to you,” he added.