Monday, July 16th, 2018
PM Modi accuses Opposition of crocodile tears for farmers at Bansagar canal launch
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said rival parties were shedding “crocodile tears” over farmers but had done little for them when in power, and of wasting public money by letting projects stall. He was speaking at Chandaipur in Mirzapur, in eastern Uttar Pradesh, after opening the Bansagar Dam Major Canal, whose foundation stone had been laid 40 years earlier. A project delayed for decades Modi said earlier governments at the Centre and in the state had ignored major irrigation schemes such as the Bansagar canal, as well as theRead More