PM Modi Says Ready to Extend Telangana Same Support Gujarat Received During his is Tenure as CM
Hyderabad, May 10 (TNT): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he was ready to extend to Telangana the same support that the Gujarat Government received during his tenure as Chief Minister for ten-and-a-half years.
Addressing the gathering after virtually dedicating and laying foundation stones for multiple development projects in Hyderabad, Modi made the remarks while referring to Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy.
“In a non-political conversation, I would tell Revanth Ji that I am ready to give him the same thing that the Gujarat government received during ten and a half years of governance,” the Prime Minister said.
However, Modi added in a lighter vein that if the same arrangement was implemented, Telangana might lose the benefits it was currently receiving from the Centre.
“But according to my understanding, the moment I do that, everything you are receiving today will disappear. You will not be able to reach where you want to go, and therefore it is better to remain connected with me,” he remarked.
The Prime Minister noted that Revanth Reddy had earlier said politics should not be discussed during the programme and added that he too intended to keep the discussion non-political.
Modi said the Centre firmly believed that having different political parties governing different states was not harmful for democracy and stressed that development of the states was equally important for the development of the country.
“Without the development of the states, the development of the country is not possible,” he said.
The Prime Minister said the Centre’s policies and schemes were aimed at ensuring rapid growth of all states in the spirit of cooperative federalism.
He reiterated the Union Government’s commitment to working together with states to realise the vision of a developed India by 2047.
Praising Telangana’s youth and startup ecosystem, Modi said young people in the state were dreaming big and actively contributing towards building a developed Telangana and a developed India.
Referring again to Revanth Reddy during the speech, Modi remarked that while politics would not be discussed on the stage, the Centre remained committed to supporting Telangana’s developmental aspirations.
Earlier, elangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, while addressing a programme in Hyderabad, drew a comparison with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s support to Gujarat during Narendra Modi’s tenure as Chief Minister and sought similar cooperation from the Union Government for Telangana over the next decade.
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