At UP election rally, Amit Shah’s dig at Nehru over long-pending Projects

TIL Desk/National/Lucknow/ Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said the agenda of the BJP is to make Uttar Pradesh a “proud state once again”. Taking a dig at Jawaharlal Nehru, Mr Shah said it took a Modi government to complete an irrigation project whose foundation stone was laid by the country’s first prime minister.

The agenda of the BJP is to once again take Uttar Pradesh to the top of the list of most prosperous, most literate states, Mr Shah said during the ‘enlightened class conference’ organised by BJP Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Seth in Lucknow.

Referring to the inauguration of multiple long-pending irrigation projects in Uttar Pradesh by Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently, Mr Shah said, “The Bhoomi Pujan was done by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1961 and it has been inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi just a few days ago.”

“It took 59 years to complete the projects, which is more than my age (57 years). Even the foundation stone of the project, which was laid back then, was lost. We have worked to get a stone named after Jawaharlal Nehru installed,” Mr Shah said.