Will Provide Free LPG Connections to Five Crore Women: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to ensure a better life for the poor, saying his government was “for the poor”. (Photo: ANI screengrab)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pledged to ensure a better life for the poor, saying his government was “for the poor”.

“This is a government for the poor. Whatever we do will be for the poor,” the Prime Minister said in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, launching the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana.

The scheme will provide free LPG connections to five crore women belonging to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families between 2016 and 2019.

Apparently hitting out at the erstwhile Congress-led governments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that most policies had been made in the past keeping the ballot box in mind and not for development or alleviation of poverty.

He said schemes “must be made for the welfare of the poor not keeping in mind considerations of the ballot box”.

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