Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech caused a ruckus in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday with Opposition members objecting to his statement that the Congress-led government renamed several schemes brought in by the previous NDA government.
"The UPA government renamed several schemes started by Atalji," Modi said, reading out from a list which included MNREGA, the Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan and the pension scheme.
The Prime Minister also hit out against charges that his government's budget was pro-corporate.
These are the highlights from his speech:
*More than the party we belong to, it is about the state that we represent in this House
*In a democracy, threats do not and cannot work. For 14 years in Gujarat, I was threatened with jail
We do not feel that just because we are in the treasury benches we know it all. Everyone has to work together
*I had said from the ramparts of the Red Fort. Every government, every PM has contributed in taking this country forward.
*Governments do not run this country, it is the people of India who do
*We don't think that the birth of the nation took place on August 15, 1947. It happened thousands of years before that.
*UPA accuses us of renaming schemes, they renamed NDA's schemes
*Go from Kutch to Arunachal Pradesh, and you'll see it is represented by BJP in this House. There was a time when people thought this was a party from the Hindi belt.
*There was a time when people said this was a party of the upper castes, after seeing me those people may have had to change their views.
*The perceptions you talk about are very old; BJP isn't an upper caste or Hindi-belt party
*This Swachhata Abhiyaan, is this for corporates? Can we not provide basic cleanliness facilities to the common man?
*When we build toilets in schools is this for corporates? Is soil health card for corporates?
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